Apache Friends Support Forum

I am trying to run a simple script such as:

$url='http://localhost/xampp/index.php';
//$url='c:\xampp\htdocs\index.php';
if (fopen ($url,"r"))
{
echo "It exists !!";
}
else
{
echo "It does not exist !!";
}

Error I get is :

[message] => fopen(http://localhost/xampp/index.php): failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond.

If I replace the url with 'c:\xampp\htdocs\index.php' it works fine.

Please help. Already spent one whole day on this.

Try '127.0.0.1' instead of 'localhost' in the uri.

But why does the 'localhost' not get resolved to that ip address. Just a thought. Thanks again.

But why does the 'localhost' not get resolved to that ip address.

The problem is an other:
With "localhost" PHP want access the server with IPv6. But Apache don't understand IPv6. With "127.0.0.1" IPv4 is used.