Re: php scripts only work when connected to the internet.

""Bryan"" <Bryan.W@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:9h94q7$jg2$1@w153.z064000151.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net... > Thanks Hugh, > I have been trying http://mylaptop/whatever.php where mylaptop > is the > localhost but it won't process when the laptop is standalone and not > connected to the network or dialled in to the web. When I am connected, all > php scripts work fine. I have experienced something similar running PHP with Apache on WinME; if I dial up then disconnect, then request a page on localhost, it tries to connect. Because I have the dialler set to prompt every time, it brings up the dialler, I click 'cancel'... and it gets me the page. I'm really not sure what I need to change; somehow I need to tell it that localhost doesn't require a connection. For now, it's a minor nuisance, so I just ignore it. But if anyone has a more permanent solution, I'd be glad to hear it. As one other person has noted, calling the page as http://127.0.0.1/page.php works without doing this; I have localhost set in my Apache config, but it seems to want to ask the DNS anyway??