Why can't Safari connect to the sever "localhost"?

Question

I am learning Ruby on rails from a PDF on ruby.railstutorial.org. I have been learning for about a week and a half now and have not had any trouble until yesterday. I was building a sample app and tried to look at some results in the browser but for some reason it says 'safari can't open page "localhost:3000/static_pages/home" because Safari cannot connect to the server "localhost".

• I am on OS X Mavericks 10.9.2

Answer 1

Try http://0.0.0.0:3000. That works for me. Not sure why Safari doesn't like localhost.

Answer 2

Try 127.0.0.1, enable web sharing in System Preferences, and if running, turn off Apache.

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