On Sunday 29 Jun 2008, Craig wrote:
> Hello all,
> Just a quick question (hopefully) concerning Firefox. I have a local
> server called http://houseweb/ . I tried to access it by typing that
> into the adress bar, only for firefox to change it to www.houseweb.com.
> I am not pressing ctrl+enter or anything, I have even tried bookmarking
> it and accessing it through the bookmark but to no avail.
> I did look through the properties, but either I am blind or there was
> no option.
Various versions of Iceweasel (Debian's version of Firefox) work perfectly
well on my various systems.
Some obvious quick questions:
* What distro are you using (server and client)?
* How does you systems resolve the name houseweb (DNS or hosts file?)
* What does host houseweb show on your system?
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