I am running XAMPP (Apache, MySQL and PHP) on my Windows Vista computer. I have curl
installed on my machine. When I try to curl
my localhost
in the command prompt, I get the following:
curl -v -i localhost
* timeout on name lookup is not supported
* About to connect() to localhost port 80 (#0)
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:02:00 --:--:-- 0
* Connection refused
* couldn't connect to host
* Closing connection #0
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
However, if I curl
a live site, such as Google, it fetches appropriately. This issue only appears when using the command line. I am able to curl localhost
from my local server via PHP script without any issue.
Is this a result of some sort of Apache config? Or is there some sort of network or Internet settings that need to be configured/adjusted in Windows to get it to work right?
Best Answer
I tried out a couple of different config options, tweaked my firewall and setting a proxy, with no real effect. I set it back to the defaults and decided to restart my comp (had Windows updates pending). When the computer restarted, I tried again and was able to connect via
curl
. While I can’t really tell what was hanging up in particular, a fresh restart cured the problem. I.T. helpdesk 101, right?For anyone with trouble in the future, while I was using the verbose option (
-v
) on curl, I found that for the most information about the connection attempts, it’s best to use--trace
, or even trace in conjunction with-v
.