Change to Apache stopped Firefox previews

I recently changed from IIS to Apache for Dreamweaver's testing server on my
Windows XP system. Looking back, that's probably when previews in Firefox
stopped working. As my sites are Flash only it wasn't something that bothered
me much. But previews still don't work in Firefox 3, so I investigated and
found that although Firefox works fine in other respects, it ignores any
localhost URLs eg:

http://localhost/mysite/noFlash.html

So, although it's not Dreamweaver at fault I guess quite a few of you have
encountered the same problem. Does anyone know the solution?!

Bob,
My local testing Wamp5/Apache server stopped working too. Oddly enough it
failed to work with any browser after FF3 was installed and one of the
add-ons I use was updated. I think it may have been that Yahoo toolbar
piece of trash but I can't be certain. So I deleted Yahoo toolbar.
Temporarily disabled all other add-ons (Firebug, Foxmarks, etc....).

Uninstalled WAMP. Removed wamp folder from HD. Reinstalled WAMP5/Apache.
And now all my browsers are able to see localhost again.

I'm still sorting out how to get DW to actually put my files to local
testing server. DW sees them as updated but when I check from Win Explorer,
they are not. So I'm manually copying files over from local site folder to
testing server until I can work this out.

HTH,
--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com


"Bob Pierce" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I recently changed from IIS to Apache for Dreamweaver's testing server on
my
> Windows XP system. Looking back, that's probably when previews in Firefox
> stopped working. As my sites are Flash only it wasn't something that
bothered
> me much. But previews still don't work in Firefox 3, so I investigated and
> found that although Firefox works fine in other respects, it ignores any
> localhost URLs eg:
>
> http://localhost/mysite/noFlash.html
>
> So, although it's not Dreamweaver at fault I guess quite a few of you
have
> encountered the same problem. Does anyone know the solution?!
>
>

..oO(Nancy O)

>My local testing Wamp5/Apache server stopped working too. Oddly enough it
>failed to work with any browser after FF3 was installed and one of the
>add-ons I use was updated.

"Stopped working" is not a helpful error description. What happened?
What didn't work anymore? Odd behaviour? Error messages?

>I think it may have been that Yahoo toolbar
>piece of trash but I can't be certain. So I deleted Yahoo toolbar.
>Temporarily disabled all other add-ons (Firebug, Foxmarks, etc....).
>
>Uninstalled WAMP. Removed wamp folder from HD. Reinstalled WAMP5/Apache.
>And now all my browsers are able to see localhost again.

Reinstalling of anything is hardly ever necessary, but seems to be quite
common in the Windows world. Why?

The reason for the problem was/is definitely something else. Some more
details might help.

Micha

I haven't had to reinstall anything for some years now!

Bob

No server found at http://localhost/Sitename/ although server was
definitely working.

All browsers (IE6, Safari 3.1, FF2 and FF3) failed to find the testing
server but DW could see all files on testing server fine.

Testing server worked the other day. Stopped working after FF3 updated some
add-ons. Which ones? I didn't pay much attention.

FF3 Add-ons when this happened:
Firebug 1.2.0b4
Foxmarks bookmarks synchronizer 2.0.47.4
Broadband Speed Test & Dx 1.1
HTML Validator (tidy) 0.8.5.2
IE Tab 1.5.20080618
Screen Grab 0.95
Image Zoom 0.3.1
Pallette Grabber 0.3.9
Snapshots 2.00
Yahooy Toolbar (I don't know the version, I took it off)

--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com


"Michael Fesser" <netizen@gmx.de> wrote in message
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> .oO(Nancy O)
>
> >My local testing Wamp5/Apache server stopped working too. Oddly enough
it
> >failed to work with any browser after FF3 was installed and one of the
> >add-ons I use was updated.
>
> "Stopped working" is not a helpful error description. What happened?
> What didn't work anymore? Odd behaviour? Error messages?
>
> >I think it may have been that Yahoo toolbar
> >piece of trash but I can't be certain. So I deleted Yahoo toolbar.
> >Temporarily disabled all other add-ons (Firebug, Foxmarks, etc....).
> >
> >Uninstalled WAMP. Removed wamp folder from HD. Reinstalled
WAMP5/Apache.
> >And now all my browsers are able to see localhost again.
>
> Reinstalling of anything is hardly ever necessary, but seems to be quite
> common in the Windows world. Why?
>
> The reason for the problem was/is definitely something else. Some more
> details might help.
>
> Micha

Typically I haven't either.

This from another newsgroup:

"Nancy, I couldn't see WAMP in FF either - yet I could
see it in DW. I am not certain this was the cause, but somewhere along the
line I said 'yes' to the Yahoo Toolbar. When I uninstalled that, I had WAMP
back. I don't know if it was the entire Yahoo Toolbar which caused the
problem, but one of the things it loaded was Skype and Charles wrote
something about their being a port conflict caused by where Skype loads as a
default. I didn't investigate this, just removed the Yahoo Toolbar. "

--Nancy O.
Alt-Web Design & Publishing
www.alt-web.com


"Bob Pierce" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I haven't had to reinstall anything for some years now!
>
> Bob

..oO(Nancy O)

>No server found at http://localhost/Sitename/ although server was
>definitely working.

How did you make sure that the server was working?

>All browsers (IE6, Safari 3.1, FF2 and FF3) failed to find the testing
>server

If the server is not responding or can't be reached, then it doesn't
matter which browser you use.

>but DW could see all files on testing server fine.

There are various methods to access files on a machine. Direct file
access and FTP have nothing to do with HTTP.

>Testing server worked the other day. Stopped working after FF3 updated some
>add-ons. Which ones? I didn't pay much attention.

I really can't imagine a scenario where a browser update would kill a
server on the same machine. This simply can't (or at least should not)
happen.

So either the server wasn't running properly, for example due to an
already used port 80 (Skype may also use it, as mentioned in your other
posting), or something screwed-up the DNS, so that the name 'localhost'
couldn't be resolved. In either case there should be some error
messages.

Micha

Sorry to be picky, but my thread has been hijacked!

I don't have the issues you guys are discussing. My local server works fine,
Dreamweaver synchronises local files perfectly, IE happily previews my sites on
the local server, Firefoxe works a treat as a normal browser, all is sweetness
and light in my world. Except that Firefox, will not display localhost files. I
just thought someone else might have encountered this tiny, specific, problem!

I'm using the easyPHP bundle (all in one installer... apache, php, mysql
and phpadmin) and it works fine after updating FF2 to FF3. Only thing
that annoys me is that I didn't install FF3 in a different folder so I
could have them both.

I don't have *ANY* toolbars from Google, Yahoo or anything else like
that installed. Only thing I can think of is... have you defined FF3 as
your preview browser within DW?

Kim

, but my thread has been hijacked!
>
> I don't have the issues you guys are discussing. My local server works fine,
> Dreamweaver synchronises local files perfectly, IE happily previews my sites on
> the local server, Firefoxe works a treat as a normal browser, all is sweetness
> and light in my world. Except that Firefox, will not display localhost files. I
> just thought someone else might have encountered this tiny, specific, problem!
>
>

--
Kim
---------------------------
http://www.geekministry.com

On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 08:46:34 +0000 (UTC), "Bob Pierce"
<webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote:

>Except that Firefox, will not display localhost files.

I use Apache and have no problem previewing in Firefox 2 or 3. What
happens when you try? Do you get an error message and, if so, what is
it?

Gary