| Re: Foxtrot not working on New MacBook Pro [message #796 is a reply to message #794] |
Mon, 23 July 2018 12:12   |
FoxTrot Engineering
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Registered: April 2020
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Peter Morris wrote:
> I just found the problem - it appears the Hosts file in the /etc folder was
> corrupted.
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> I downloaded a new hosts file, overwrote the corrupted file and now Foxtrot
> works correctly.
That is really interesting; yes, FoxTrot requires that "localhost" refers to your machine (i.e. 127.0.0.1 or ::1), and if your /etc/hosts file has been configured otherwise, this will prevent FoxTrot from working correctly.
May I ask how your /etc/hosts file got changed? Did you use some third party tool to configure apache? Which IP address had been assigned to localhost? Was this a consequence of an error or misconfiguration, or was there actually a real reason for localhost to be defined as something else?
I am asking this to understand if we should change something in FoxTrot to handle this situation, or if this situation should not have happened at all.
Thanks
Jérôme - CTM Engineering
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