My people pls help me.

my local host will not work except i am connected to the internet, it wasnt behaving like this untill about 3 days ago and i lost some of the work ive done when i was trying to fix it.

pls what do i do?

thank you all in anticipation.

Provide more information and maybe you would get help

what server type you running

firewall and antivirus ( maybe port changed)

what application is running / installed IIS , Linux , Easy php , winamp , Apache

many more just say and maybe u could get help

ya provide those info and also i guess i have something close to that, my server don;t allow me to view my works on IE expect FF but i can connect to Internet with IE so why don't you use FireFox and see what happen or better still you can provide those info Opensource ask ya

by localhost you mean IIS set up on your computer so it can act as a server? Is that what you mean?

This is what you should do.

Whatever webserver you are using (Apache, IIS etc), check to ensure that it is started. If it is and you can't get localhost on your web browser, try using the loop-back address (127.0.0.1) in place of localhost - Apache behaves like this if your httpd.conf configuration is not well set up.

Check the connetion settings on your browser. Under LAN Settings, if you're using a proxy server ensure you check the By pass Proxy for Local Address and include localhost, 127.0.0.1 and maybe your IP adress in the by pass list. What happens if you don't include these settings, is that the browser attempts to look for whatever you type in after the http protocol on the internet; meaning it keeps glooming around the world instead of your local machine.

That should solve it.

Take care.

oh thank you all.

@simpledee
thank you i didnt try it twice, GOD bless you in abundant measures.