How do you reset localhost:8084 to http://127.0.0.1:8084 in Tomcat files?

Question

I had some issues along with others, loading Tomcat 7.0.22.0 with NetBeans on packaged instal. This looked to be an issue with some computers and not others. Not to mention other little issues I got past, the browser would not load with

http://localhost:8084

So I pasted in...

http://127.0.0.1:8084

And it worked. The first address (with localhost) does work on my other computer and some others in our class, but a few have been battling with this. I figured out the patch by luck. The other problems (password and port #'s) also seemed to be consistent with possibly loading on a Windows 7 Professional 64, or this could be just chance. Any ideas would be a big help.

Answer 1

Perhaps you are missing an entry in your hosts file. Localhost is almost always 100% synonymous with 127.0.0.1

Answer 2

localhost is (usually) found in the hosts file (on Windows usually found in C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts) when the computer tries to look it up. If the computer can't connect to localhost, it's usually because it's missing or configured wrong in that file.

That said, I've seen some computers having trouble with the ipv6 localhost line (the ::1)

Basically it seems to (on some computers) make ipv6 enabled programs like Internet Explorer use ipv6 while the non enabled ones use ipv4, which makes them not communicate. I've not been able to figure out exactly why some computers seem to have this problem, but removing the

::1 localhost 

line and adding (if it does not exist) a

127.0.0.1 localhost

usually fixes the problem.

Answer 3

if you lazy here is best option

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9668866

reference:- http://support.microsoft.com/kb/972034