What is "http://localhost/"?

[coolsam]

Hi!
I saw that considerable amount of visitors come in "http://localhost/". What is that site?

[Niko]

Hello coolsam,

The term localhost refers to the local computer that a program or a web application is running on. For more detailed information about the term and its meaning in computer networking, please refer to the article below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost

[vinil]

its a local server running web application on the same computer ,It needs ports defined before to work .by default its address is 127

[mastershu]

Localhost is just another way of saying 127.0.0.1 which is your own server/computers internal loopback address. More info here - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost

[Sharon Nocher]

Localhost is term applicable for testing and running local server in your pc its not like that you will get it live on internet.
But you can check what is the output of the website which you are developing for live server.
Basically you can get it from this IP 127.0.0.1.

[stalk]

If you are running apache locally, then localhost (127.0.0.1) would be your home computer.
If you're configuring your VPS or dedicated server, and localhost reference would be to that computer.
For me, the most common use of localhost is when I create MYSQL databases on the servers.