Guest cebo Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 Hi, newbie in need of help here. For some reason, even though I can ping localhost and 127.0.0.1 from a terminal and receive a response, neither firefox, konqueror or yahoopops can connect to it. I get an error box stating that "the connection was refused when attempting to contact 127.0.0.1" I'm using mandrake 10.1 official and have searched the internet in vain for an answer. Any help much appreciated thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 welcome aboard and a good laughter :lol: i am getting the same result on every box ;). why do you want to connect to 127.0.0.1 which is your computers very own loopback connection? you won't get access to any website there. just for amusement and further information: 127.0.0.1 is a loopback network connection. If you telnet, ftp, etc... to 127.0.0.1, you are immediately connected to your own machine. For example, if your system was named "joker", and you attempted to telnet to 127.0.0.1, you would see: # telnet 127.0.0.1 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to joker Escape character is '^]'. Convincing newbies to connect to 127.0.0.1 is a frequent joke on the Internet. localhost is another name for 127.0.0.1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cebo Posted December 8, 2004 Report Share Posted December 8, 2004 It's not that I want to connect to localhost myself. I've been trying to use 2 programs, yahoopops, and webhttrack, both of them use localhost, and yet both give an error saying they can't connect to it. webhttrack in konqueror says An error occurred while loading http://drew.comp:8080/server/step2.html: Could not connect to host drew.comp (port 8080) while using yahoopops with thunderbird I get Could not connect to server localhost; the connection was refused. I just don't understand... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoopy Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 127.0.0.1 serves its purpose. I use it to test / view websites I am working on my local server. Any chance you have some proxy configured with your internet connection or browser ? That would produce that "connection was refused" error your getting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 By default theres no webserver running on 127.0.0.1 - this behaviour is normal. Do the programs you want to use need a running webserver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest cebo Posted December 9, 2004 Report Share Posted December 9, 2004 Thanks for the responses. First of all, I've done a check and I have no proxies configured anywhere in either Firefox, Konqueror or anywhere else. The program I most want to use is yahoopops, which lets you download from yahoo mail with a mail client. I've installed it with no problems that I can tell, and have followed the steps in setting up the mail client, using thunderbird, as listed at http://yahoopops.sourceforge.net/modules.p...&artid=3&page=1 I've put 'localhost' in the various fields, and then get the error message 'can't connect blah blah blah' when I try and use it. It may be just coincedence that webhttrack gives virtually the same error, but I think it does want to use an internal server. When I ping localhost in a terminal I get this response [drew@10 drew]$ ping localhost PING drew.comp (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from drew.comp (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.035 ms 64 bytes from drew.comp (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms 64 bytes from drew.comp (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms 64 bytes from drew.comp (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.038 ms 64 bytes from drew.comp (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.042 ms 64 bytes from drew.comp (127.0.0.1): icmp_seq=6 ttl=64 time=0.036 ms and on and on... does this not mean theres a server running there. Sorry if this is a bit vague or stoopid - it does strike me as odd that no-one else has ever had this problem (from what I've googled) so I'm assuming it's something extremely obvious that I've overlooked - but I just don't know what. Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinkliberty Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 Use wizdrake and run through the WWW wizard ;) then using 127.0.0.1 will bring up a website Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 cebo: It's normal that you can ping your localhost - this has nothing to do with whether theres a webserver running. It simply means that your loopback network works - doesn't really tell you a lot. Do you have a firewall running? It may be blocking access to the necessary ports on your machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted December 10, 2004 Report Share Posted December 10, 2004 This sounds a bit like problems I was having with NFS which I think was something with the msec levels. I actually set it to off but it still didn't help and I kept getting refusals ... Unfortunately it was a 'production' server so i couldn;t wait around (home ents and file server for music/divx) so I installed something else but Im sure it was fixable, just I wasn't sure where to look! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 er, yahoopops? evolution and thunderbird can do that too...just go to the yahoo website and set it up, then configure your mail client. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest trysteps Posted December 14, 2004 Report Share Posted December 14, 2004 Hi people, Also got that problem until today. After i reconfigured blind on ip address 127.0.0.1 and server name : 127.0.0.1 and reboot the programs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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