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Safari is unable to reach localhost (127.0.0.1)

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Mar 15, 202651957 views
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I've encountered a really strange Mac problem: Safari is unable to connect to localhost whereas all other applications can connect as normal (Firefox, Chrome, ping, etc.). My /etc/hosts is the standard setup: Question: Have anyone else encountered this? What could be the problem? Update #1: I have …

Error Output

$ egrep localhost /etc/hosts
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
127.0.0.1   localhost
::1         localhost 
fe80::1%lo0 localho…

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Fix for: Safari is unable to reach localhost (127.0.0.1)

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I think we need a little more information based on your question. I'm going to guess you have a web server running to accept requests? I currently don't, and Safari won't connect to 127.0.0.1, because it "Couldn't find 127.0.0.1" - even though I can…

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