Xampp requires a network connection?

hi
I have xampp installed but for some reason it will not run unless there is a network connection. What I mean is, when I start Xampp up, it doesn't give me an error or anything but when I go to localhost it blanks out. After I plug a network connection in, it works perfectly. It doesn't have to be connected to the interent, just connected to a network.

Has anyone experienced this problem? Does anyone know how to fix this? It seems that it checks to see if there is a network and doesn't patch to the xampp server unless it sees one there.

Anway, any help is welcome. Thanks

The Net Duck

I think if you explicitly tell apache to bind to the lo adapter's address, 127.0.0.1, it should start right up. eg. in the httpd.conf file look for Listen 80 and change it to Listen 127.0.0.1:80

I've noticed this with the default ubuntu LAMP configuration. It does not have to even be a real network. I once plugged my laptop into a hub(or router not sure which one it was an old one I had laying around) and nothing else was plugged into it but kubuntu grabbed an ip and it worked.

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Originally Posted by quelx

I think if you explicitly tell apache to bind to the lo adapter's address, 127.0.0.1, it should start right up. eg. in the httpd.conf file look for Listen 80 and change it to Listen 127.0.0.1:80

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Tested this out and it didn't seem to work. Still not start until connected to some how to a network. I tried different variations of localhost 127.0.0.1 etc...


I wish I could pin point the cause.

Thanks
The Net Duck

Perhaps your host file is messed up. Look for an entry like:

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127.0.0.1    localhost

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Also, try '127.0.0.1' in your browser.

Ya that works fine but only if the computer is on a network.

That doesn't make sense, as lo is it's own loopback device. That should be working.

What does 'ifconfig -a' produce?

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:09:c5:48:84
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:21

eth0:avahi Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1d:09:c5:48:84
inet addr:169.254.6.51 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:21

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:27404 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27404 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:49521073 (47.2 MB) TX bytes:49521073 (47.2 MB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:3a:4d:50:32
inet addr:192.168.0.83 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21f:3aff:fe4d:5032/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:64476 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:46826 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:69412485 (66.1 MB) TX bytes:6829104 (6.5 MB)
Interrupt:20 Memory:c0200000-c0204000
hope that helps. BTW I'm using Kubuntu but that shoulden't matter. I am not using Xampp but installed ubuntu LAMP with tasksel

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Originally Posted by Dr Small

That doesn't make sense, as lo is it's own loopback device. That should be working.

What does 'ifconfig -a' produce?

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eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:37:cb:48:05
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Base address:0x1800 Memory:fe200000-fe220000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:2966 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2966 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:242212 (236.5 KB) TX bytes:242212 (236.5 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:3b:51:12:79
inet addr:192.168.0.3 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21f:3bff:fe51:1279/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1492 Metric:1
RX packets:2141117 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2113555 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1325261249 (1.2 GB) TX bytes:420453598 (400.9 MB)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1F-3B-51-12-79-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)


This is what I got for my machine... running a ThinkPad R Series with wireless ABGN

The Net Duck

I think it has something to do with

/etc/network/interfaces

Because ... these two posts...

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/ubu...ond-lampp.html
http://www.certforums.co.uk/forums/thread21800.html

I don't know what to modify though....

The Net Duck

Hey I figured this out. When no network is connected something must tell firefox to go into offline mode. If you go to File> and uncheck work offline it should work. It worked when I tried it but I only tried it once.