Need help understanding tomcat access problem

[Bryan Sant]

On 5/3/06, Al Byers <byersa at automationgroups.com> wrote:
> I recently had to go out of town and I need to update my server at home
> from Ubuntu breezy to dapper. That worked fine, but when I got home and
> fired up my trusty tomcat app and tried to connect via localhost.com, it
> would not. I can see that the app is running and I can look at the log
> file and it is not showing any activity.
>
> I am not network enabled enough to know where to start looking for the
> disconnect. Can anyone give me a few pointers?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al Byers

Connecting to "localhost.com" would indeed be incorrect.  If you open
a command shell on that box and run "ping localhost.com", the domain
name you supplied will resolve to some far off IP address on the
Internet, not 127.0.0.1 as you were expecting.

You want to access "localhost" not "localhost.com" -- drop the .com :-)

-Bryan