Windows – Cannot find local host via browser – can ping localhost and 127.0.0.1 ok

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I have installed wampserver to start up some PHP-scripting, but cannot call localhost
nor 127.0.0.1 via Chrome, Firefox or IE8.

I have made sure that my host-file says 127.0.0.1 localhost
I have run gpupdate /force and ipconfig /flushdns and reboot – but still no success.

The solutions above – I have gotten from other forums – but still
when I type http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 in the browsers I get nowhere.

I get fine answers from both localhost and 127.0.0.1 when I ping them.

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Did you start the service for Apache and PHP at least? Image below shows where to start all services.

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http://www.installationwiki.org/WAMP

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