can't connect to lighttpd on localhost on ubuntu 8.04

[dhoss]

Hi everybody,

I've gone through about every plausible cause that might be the source of this error, and nothing has turned up.

I'm attempting to run lighttpd as a development server on my Compaq Evo N610c running Ubuntu 8.04 (originally installed Kubuntu 8.04 but downloaded the ubuntu-desktop package(s) and switched to GNOME to fix my wireless issues I was having.) and when I load up firefox and go to http://localhost, it attempts to load for a while then times out. Pinging localhost on any port (as well as telnet-ing) seems to all yield the same time out.

I can't figure this out. My /etc/hosts file looks like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost devin-laptop

I think I've done my due diligence but if something is missing on my end please don't hesitate to let me know.

Thanks,

-dhoss

Solved: For some reason lo was down, so I just did sudo ifconfig lo up and things worked.