Resolving to LOCALHOST and file protocol

[Guest]

Yesterday I could no longer hit my webpage using http://localhost:8080/index.jsp. I also had to change all of my links to servers from using the server name to using the IP address. The third problem is that all of the links to documents on my hard drive don't work. Internet Explorer doesn't even try to open the links. The links to my mapped drives work, but they are mapped to an IP address.

I have check my host file, DNS, and proxy settings and have found nothing. I've also searched Microsoft.com and haven't found anything pertinent to my problem. Any ideas?

 

[Kenrick Fu]

Have you checked whether the Apache Tomcat Server is running?

 

[Guest]

Yes, it's running. I can hit the server when I type in http://127.0.0.1/index.jsp. I can hit everything if the address is an IP address. It's when IE is supplied with something other than an IP address. I checked the host file and localhost was in it. I added the servernames and IP addresses. That cleared up the issue of connecting to my iPlanet admin server, but I still can't hit http://localhost. I have a jsp page that I run locally that includes links to documentation that I store on my hard drive and links to the webapps folders in order to make uploading easier. Those links don't work, or even try to work. If I right-click on the link and choose "copy shortcut", I can click Start - Run and paste the shortcut, hit enter and the file opens as expected. It just won't work in IE.