web application localhost

[William Pribble]

On our server if the Oracle user opens Netscape and uses the address http://127.0.0.1:7777, they are directed to a Oracle web page. If they use http://localhost:7777, they are unable to get to the page. As root I can do both correctly. I can ping both and perform a nslookup and resove the addresses. Does anyone have any ideas? All help is appreciated. Thanks....

[harry d brown jr]

What does "nslookup localhost" return?

What is the configuration of netscape for connection to internet and proxies??

What version of netscape??

What does /etc/nsswitch.conf look like?

What about /etc/resolv.conf??

live free or die
harry

[harry d brown jr]

bounce??

[James Beamish-White]

Boing!!!

Anyway.... what web server/application is running on 7777? It may be permissions on the files being read are not accessible from that user - can you access them from another machine?

Cheers!
James

[Dikki A. Coy]

Had a related issue. We were installing an upgrade to an Oracle product on our hp box. The software needed to be able to get to localhost - but failed. Ping failed to localhost also. After a call to HP, we edited the nsswitch.conf file to hosts: files (so it would look at /etc/hosts first) then DNS. Works!

[Sanjay_6]

Hi,

As oracle, can you resolve localhost to 127.0.0.1. Also do you have read permission on /etc/hosts /etc/resolv.conf and /etc/nsswitch.conf for oracle to read these files.

Hope this helps.

Regds