Use A Server Locally When Not Online

[racing_fire]

Hey,

A couple years ago I remember that I could connect to my own (HTTP) server running locally without being online.

Tomorrow, I am going on a trip. On the trip I will be taking my laptop PC and I have a server on it (Apache). Last time I tried this I could not connect to the server using "127.0.0.1" or "localhost". IE just gives me an error saying that it could not find an Internet connection.

Is there a way that I can connect to my local server and use it without being online?

On the Laptop I have: Windows XP Home Edition

I -know- there is a way to do this as for I did this a while ago.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

[Siliconjunkie]

You should still be able to connect using 127.0.0.1, you may have to install the "MS Loopback Adapter" in your network properties first.

[Mickwish]

I think you need to specific the loopback address in Apache's config file as well, don't you? Check the Apache documentation for this.

Cheers
Mick

[Siliconjunkie]

I think by default it binds to all addresses, but with no active adapters it may die. But good place to look.

On my Apache (Linux) this is where it would be:

Listen 80

Which means port 80 on all addresses. You could try changing it to 127.0.0.1:80 and see what it does.