localhost 8008

[bonol]

Hello this is not a bug i dont think but i am having a problem running runbasic free evaluation version. When i run run basic and click launch in browser i get the error
Internet explorer cannot display that page.
When i then click the Diagnos problem dialog box it displays
Localhost is not set up to establish a connection on port 8008.
Im running windows vista. Also i checked my firewall and it is allowing run basic to access the internet. I run an abyss web server and that is working. Help i want to try run basic out

[Carl Gundel - admin]

Mar 13, 2009 22:40:10 GMT -5 bonol said:

Hello this is not a bug i dont think but i am having a problem running runbasic free evaluation version. When i run run basic and click launch in browser i get the error
Internet explorer cannot display that page.
When i then click the Diagnos problem dialog box it displays
Localhost is not set up to establish a connection on port 8008.
Im running windows vista. Also i checked my firewall and it is allowing run basic to access the internet. I run an abyss web server and that is working. Help i want to try run basic out

Maybe you need to try adding port 8008 to Windows Firewall?

-Carl

[bonol]

No i added the port. It did not work. I suspect this could be a network problem local to my machine and not the fault of run basic. I will attempt to fix the problem, if i get no joy i will return for help. Thanks for the advice anyway.

[Jerry Muelver]

Try running the server, then open IE. In the IE URL box, type or copy:
http://localhost:8008/seaside/go/runbasicpersonal

See if that works. IE sometimes (on my WIn XP Pro) decides it can't find a file, even when I'm looking right at it, when you double-click on an HTML file name and hope to open it in IE.

[bonol]

no jerry that did not work either. I am stumped with this one.
If i find a solution i will call back. If not i will keep peeking the forum hoping someone finds a solution. As i said in an earlier post, i dont want to put a downer on run basic, im sure this is some erroneous setting on my computer.Thanks anyway for the suggestion.

[bonol]

CRACKED IT. ;D

It was not easy. I checked my host file and the loopback address 127.0.0.1 was missing. Then i edited the file in notepad and added the line
127.0.0.1 localhost then saved. Well it would not let me save ( i thought i owned this laptop not microsoft). Could i save this file could i heck.
Anyway to cut a long story short, heres my solution for anyone with this problem.

1. Right click the command prompt and click run in administator mode and type.
2. takeown /f C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
3. icacls C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts /grant %USERNAME%:f

Now you can add the line 127.0.0.1 localhost and save it.
Phew thing are getting harder not easier. Hope this helps.



Stefan: corrected path to the hosts file

[StefanPendl]

Mar 15, 2009 20:57:14 GMT -5 bonol said:

I checked my host file and the loopback address 127.0.0.1 was missing.

There must have been another program removing the entry, since it is there for an OOTB installation.

1. Right click the command prompt and click run in administator mode and type.
2. takeown /f C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
3. icacls C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts /grant %USERNAME%:f

I would not loosen the access restrictions to this file, since spyware uses this file to change the DNS lookup results too.

I would run notepad as administrator and add the entry back.

[bonol]

Ok stefen that seems simpler and better. I would like to say this is a network problem and not a run basic bug. Maybe this thread is in the wrong place now. Thanks all

[StefanPendl]

Mar 16, 2009 8:56:53 GMT -5 bonol said:

I would like to say this is a network problem and not a run basic bug. Maybe this thread is in the wrong place now.

I think we keep it here, so folks will find it, if searching the board.
I have added it to the Bug Reports TOC already.