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I keep getting connection timeouts when using localhost, whereas “127.0.0.1” works?

April 26, 2017connection localhost timeouts

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I keep getting connection timeouts when using localhost, whereas “127.0.0.1” works?

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Prior to PHP 5.3.4, there was a bug in the network resolving code inside PHP that caused localhost in all stream related situations to fail if IPv6 was enabled. To work around this issue you can either use “127.0.0.1” or disable IPv6 resolving in the hosts file.