localhost ..? problem?

[timesking]

hey.. this might sound silly but i have no idea on how to solve this.. pls help guys..

i have to run some html, perl, php programs on my fedora.. but itseems i have a localhost problem .. not abe to run any pgms on localhost in Mozilla..? how do i resolve this? (i run usually as http://localhost/pgm3.html)


usually in fedora 6 or previous versions this works .. but m not able to figure out how to do in newer versions ..

[CD-RW]

What error message do you have in your browser?

[timesking]

Unable to connect



Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost.

* The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
moments.

* If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
connection.

* If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

[CD-RW]

Is the apache web server running? It's called httpd on Fedora.

as root do:

[root] # yum install httpd
[root] # chkconfig --level 2345 httpd on
[root] # chkconfig --list httpd
[root] # apachectl start

See if that works

A nice visual process monitor is:
http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~f91-men/qps/

It will show you if apache, called httpd is running on your machine.

[CD-RW]

There appears to be a bug in the PHP module that crashes apache.

Try uninstalling the php apache module with:

[root]# yum erase php

then do:

[root]apachectl stop
[root]# apachectl start

You should be able to connect to localhost then.

Please see this post for more info:

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?p=1303196