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I've been developing web apps for several months now on my mac using the built in apache server and everything has been fine. I restarted my mac this morning and now when I try to connect to anything on localhost I get the error: "Could not connect to localhost". Here are some things I have already checked:

  • Apache is running. System Preferences->Sharing->Web Sharing is turned on.
  • I ran "apachectl configtest" and it returned "Syntax OK"

Any help would be appreciated.

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What happens if you ping localhost and what is ib console(as an admin user)? – Mark Nov 21 '11 at 15:20
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=64 time=0.076 ms – Groppe Nov 21 '11 at 15:30
Is this something you ever figured out or are you still in need of help in answering? – bmike♦ Feb 21 at 16:53
I actually no longer use the machine in question, so I don't need assistance any longer. – Groppe Feb 22 at 0:02
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I can recommend MAMP. It's everything you need in one software-package. Apache, MySQL and PHP. I use it for years and I never met a problem!

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This says nothing about the question – Mark Nov 21 '11 at 15:19
No true, but it will solve Groppe's issue never the less... – Michiel Nov 21 '11 at 17:23
Why - as apache is still here and runs with firewalls in exactly the same way – Mark Nov 21 '11 at 22:28
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From the terminal curl http://localhost || echo $? might be a good place to start to determine if this is a resource issue, routing issue or apache issue.

You'll either get back a valid http response or an error that may lead the way to knowing why your other web clients are not connecting to localhost on port 80.

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