localhost Help Needed

[Keith Russell]

Hi, everyone.

I recently installed the POPFile antispam program. When I try to access the
POPFile user interface at http://localhost:8080, I get a "page unavailable"
error.

In doing some further checking, I found that I can ping localhost, but I
cannot telnet to it.

Can anyone tell me what's wrong? Is there a service I need to start, or
something else?

Thanks.

 

[Eric Renken]

It sounds like the POPFile program isn't listening on that port. Localhost
is just your computer it is a TCP/IP name that will point to your own
computer. You might want to make sure that the POPFile program is running
in your services manager and even check the event logs.

You can get to the services manager clicking Start...Run.. and typing
"services.msc" and clicking OK.
You can get to the event viewer by click Start...Run... and typeing
"eventvwr.msc" and clicking OK.

What happens when you telnet to: loclhost:8080? Do you get any response?

 

[Keith Russell]

It sounds like the POPFile program isn't listening on that port. Localhost
is just your computer it is a TCP/IP name that will point to your own
computer.

Yes, I do know that.

I think I'm still asleep... I've been playing with both POPFile and
SpamBayes over the past couple of weeks. It was actually SpamBayes that was
having a problem on port 8880, but the problem is still the same.

You might want to make sure that the POPFile program is running
in your services manager and even check the event logs.

I don't think it runs as a service. It's actually a Python script; there's
nothing relevant in the services manager, but Task Manager does show Python
running.

Running the script should automatically open a browser at
http://localhost:8880 . When I run it, it generates all the correct
messages with no errors, but the browser page doesn't open. If I enter the
URL manually, I get "The page cannot be displayed".

And the latest entries in the event logs are from four hours ago.

FWIW, this was all working the other day. I have been making some changes
to my system to improve performance, so there's a chance that I might have
done something to affect this, so that the next time I started the script,
it didn't work.

You can get to the services manager clicking Start...Run.. and typing
"services.msc" and clicking OK.
You can get to the event viewer by click Start...Run... and typeing
"eventvwr.msc" and clicking OK.

Just out of curiosity, is there a complete list anywhere of these applet
shortcuts? It's certainly a lot speedier than navigating through the
control panel. I've picked up a few along the way, but would like to know
the rest.

What happens when you telnet to: loclhost:8080? Do you get any response?

The results are the same regardless of port, whether 23, 8000, 8080, or
8880. I get an error message saying, "Connecting to localhost...Could not
open connection to the host, on port xxxx: Connect failed."

Thanks for your help. Any other ideas?

 

[Keith Russell]

Is there anyone who can help me with this? Whichever port is used, localhost is not accessible through either telnet or http.

I just installed the new Google Dekstop Search, and I can't use it, because it's all browser based. If I right click on the icon in the status tray and make a selection, whether About, Status, Preferences, or Search, it fails.

For example:

http://127.0.0.1:4664/about&s=3406709409

ERROR
The requested URL could not be retrieved

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While trying to retrieve the URL: http://127.0.0.1:4664/about&s=3406709409

The following error was encountered:

Connection Failed
The system returned:

(111) Connection refusedThe remote host or network may be down. Please try the request again.

Your cache administrator is webmaster.



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Can anyone tell me what's going on?

Thanks.