localhost bypassed
Just to explain, I have a site on a Host and a Localhost version for testing, for the last six month, a minimum of 12 hours a day, have searched for an answer on how to implement a features on my site! The maze of the internet was frustrating, leading me in circles, so after fruitless months, I stumbled on what I think is a solution. Up to this stage both locations worked fine!
My quandary, Firefox updated and suddenly, Firefox is bypassing the local and going directly to the host when Localhost is typed in the address bar and entered. As I stated both are exactly the same. I cleared the cache and even went so far as delete Firefox and reinstall, to no avail! Same problem!
So what do I do? To rectify my problem, don't want to spend another six month trying to find an answer to this problem.
Currently all development has stopped on my site because the local can't be accessed and if it can, any changes made on the local are trying to transfer to the Host bypassing the local, which I can't afford to do! What is a fix for this?
I loathe going on a forum to ask, I've found that a simple question opens time wasting replies taking you in circles leading you nowhere to a solution! I need a direct answer not a a try this or that in the hope of stumbling on a solution! And now trying to ask about it, being frustrated even to do that.
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I understand that you have a local version of the site and a site that loads at localhost. What is the difference between these two?
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The localhost is the backup as in https://localhost/d/ while the site is https://www.domain.com/d/ other than locations these are exact duplicates of each other, by typing the address localhost as above in the address bar, Firefox now goes to the domain as above , all setting are correct on the localhost and up until the last update worked fine!
Are you still looking for an answer ? I haven't a clue !! but maybe one of these links will help you.
If no one here is answering it may be worth trying elsewhere maybe mozillazine
- http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=25
- or the mailing group (EWG) for ESR see https://www.mozilla.org/firefox/organizations/faq/
Could it be related to the paths used ?
- When will the local links issue be fixed? /questions/1066709
Although I do not see why anything is related to an upgrade.
Is there a base element in the head section that might be causing this?
You can remove all data stored in Firefox from a specific domain via "Forget About This Site" in the right-click context menu of an history entry ("History > Show All History" or "View > Sidebar > History") or via the about:permissions page.
Using "Forget About This Site" will remove all data stored in Firefox from that domain like bookmarks, cookies, passwords, cache, history, and exceptions, so be cautious and if you have a password or other data from that domain that you do not want to lose then make sure to backup this data or make a note.
You can't recover from this 'forget' unless you have a backup of the involved files.
It doesn't have any lasting effect, so if you revisit such a 'forgotten' website then data from that website will be saved once again.