Re: What is the easiest way to set up a localhost web server?

On 2005-12-16, Chris Barts <puonegf+hfrarg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I am running Fedora Core 4.
>
> I have modified my local /etc/hosts file so that the names of many hosts
> that serve up ads now resolve to 127.0.0.1. Thing is, the lack of response
> from my own machine when a browser requests content from port 80 causes
> Opera to hang. Since I apparently cannot force Opera to time-out a request,
> the most elegant solution seems to be to get my computer to serve up some
> content to the brain-damaged browser.
>
> (I like using Opera for some things, so simply not using it isn't an option
> for me.)
>
> Setting up Apache seems like overkill for something this simple, but I can't
> think of any other way to do it.

Forget about the hosts file method and use privoxy instead
(http://www.privoxy.org)

Privoxy is much more effective and easier to maintain than a hosts file.


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John (john@xxxxxxxxxxx)
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