Re: w3m wouldn't load http://localhost

[Andre Berger <uzscd5@uni-bonn.de>]

Johann Spies <jhspies@adept.co.za> writes:

> On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 03:58:45PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> > cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson) wrote:
> > >Johann Spies <jhspies@adept.co.za> wrote:
> > >>I have apache installed and lynx, netscape and mozilla do not have a
> > >>problem to load http://localhost.
> > >>
> > >>However, links and w3m fails.  Links' error message is: "Host not found"
> > >>and w3m's: "Can't load http://localhost";.
> > >>
> > >>Does this have something to do with apache's configuration?
> > >
> > >Does http://localhost/ work? Leaving off the trailing slash only works
> > >because of a collection of ugly hacks, and URLs shouldn't be stated that
> > >way.
> > 
> > That said, http://localhost does work here on both links and w3m (this
> > is a woody system). What are the settings for ServerName and
> > UseCanonicalName in your httpd.conf?
> 
> No, http://localhost/ does also not work.  In the mean time I got
> links to work (removing a proxy specification in its configuration)
> but removing all w3m configuration did not help.
> 
> httpd.conf:
> 
> ServerName localhost
> UseCanonicalName on
> 
> Johann.

Can you 'ping localhost' successfully? Else look at
/etc/network/interfaces, the loopback interface must be active
(uncommented). 

-- Andre