Comments on: Localhost doesn’t work in Windows Vista using NOD32 v3.0

By: Maxell

Maxell — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 20:07:40 +0000

I tried everything said here, but no success..I’ using Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit, and using Xampp 1.7.3.

After installing Xampp I didn’t get the message Installation successful..It also for some reasons couldn’t crate the deskot and start menu icons.. :S and when I run the Xampp control panel, I click start next to Apache, but the admin button remains disabled, and I can’t access my localhost with a browser..Please if someone can help I would appreciate it very much..I need my localhost to test some get and post php methods for some class on my college.

Please if you have some solutions, email me.

Thank You very much in advance.

Greetings.

Rony

By: anthaa.com

anthaa.com — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:48:32 +0000

You are a life saver. I was looking for a solution to this problem but just couldn’t get the fix. You cannot even begin to imagine how much time I wasted even figuring out why localhost did not work.

By: Bon

Bon — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:09:27 +0000

I read all of the comments on this page and some were contradicting others. I tried removing and adding back in the localhosts file which makes no difference at all and then I disabled the nod32 setting which dreamluverz suggested and Apache stopped crashing.

I agree this is not the ideal solution but I think this is a nod32 bug which will eventually be fixed so for now I am happy with changing this setting and will make sure I am careful when browsing online.

By: Spas

Spas — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:46:45 +0000

Thank you for this fix. worked perfectly.

By: sean davis

sean davis — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:33:41 +0000

I really needed this fix. Thank you so much. I am reading a book on database driven sites and this was causing a huge problem. Now I’m good to go!

By: Marquise

Marquise — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 16:09:57 +0000

Hey guys,

the solution for this one is very simple…
just follow the above instructions and make sure to add the this line to the hosts file

127.0.0.1 localhost

and if you don’t know how to edit the hosts file,
go to Start->All Programs->Accessories then right click on Notepad application and select “Run as administrator” this will give the administrator rights for the notepad application, then click continue if prompt by the User Account Control.
on Notepad select File->Open then browse the hosts file located in Windows\Sysytem32\drivers\etc\ and on the file types select All files”*.*”, this will display all files in the directory, now select hosts file with(s)..(not host)… and add this at the bottom 127.0.0.1 localhost.

if you cant find the hosts file with(s), the just open the host file without(s) the add 127.0.0.1 localhost at the bottom then “save as” to the filename “hosts” then say amen …

I hope this will help.

By: RB

RB — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:04:33 +0000

Thank you! I was starting to think I was crazy. My NOD32 did the same thing, and I had to go in and delete the
:: 1 localhost
entry.

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Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:59:26 +0000

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By: dreamluverz

dreamluverz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:44:42 +0000

I guess it’s not a good solution coz nod32 says i’m not protected….huhuhu.. this is making me crazy.. any more solutions?

By: dreamluverz

dreamluverz — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 09:41:36 +0000

Ok I did this:

Go to the Setup tab and click “Enter entire advanced setup tree”
Click “Web access protection” and uncheck the checkbox labeled “Enable web access protection”
This worked using Vista Business SP1 and VS2008 SP1

BUT IT DIDN’T WORK LET ME TRY TO REBOOT….