peteradie

Thanks for all replies. Much appreciated. I can also confirm v7.0.9 has fixed the localhost resolution problem. The 3 htaccess files have the changes mentioned by Ric. I did notice that when starting Uniform Server v7.0.9 I got this Security Alert: IP ADDRESS is not 127.0.0.1, but '::1'. Note: HTTP_REFERER is 'localhost'. To disable this warning set $unisecure to 0 in: /home/admin/www/includes/config.inc.php I followed the instruction, modifed the config.inc.php file and everything is fine now. I'm comfortable making this change as I only use Unifrom Server locally before putting my web pages up to a remote host. However, I wonder what the security implications would be if I was allowing external access? BobS - Thanks for taking the time to reply with some pointers to try. For info, I did ping localhost on my PC and received the following: C:\>ping localhost Pinging AsusQuad [::1] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from ::1: time<1ms Reply from ::1: time<1ms Reply from ::1: time<1ms Reply from ::1: time<1ms Ping statistics for ::1: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms Regards, Peter

Turns out my previous update (May 26th) was incorrect. It still doesn't work without the host file being modified even with Orion 7.0.8. So, the problem remains unresolved for me. Anybody able to help, or do I just wait until an update eventually fixes the problem?

Update: Orion 7.0.6 (just released) works fine with 172.0.0.1 commented out, leaving Win 7 to resolve localhost. This behaviour is the same as I had previously with Orion 7.0.2 and is what I want. My host file is back to: # 127.0.0.1 localhost

Thanks for the replies. I already know modifying the hosts file is one fix to the problem. I explained that in my original post. My question is why do I need to make this change for v7.0.3 when it was NOT required for v7.0.2? This solution prevents Win 7 automatically resolving localhost and prevents use of IPv6. I think something has changed in the way 7.0.3 thru 7.0.5 (so far) handle localhost. I have to make the same change for each of these versions.

Hi, I was running Orion 7.0.2 without any issues. I then upgraded to 7.0.3. When starting UniServer on Windows 7, Iinternet Explorer v9 gave me the following error: "HTTP 403 Forbidden. The website declined to show this webpage" I found the only solution was to go into C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts and uncomment the line "127.0.0.1 localhost." Any idea why I needed to make this change? I would prefer Win7 to resolve localhost itself. Is there anything I can do that would allow me to put the host file back the way it was? Any help gratefully received. Thanks in advance, Peter Adie