OK, it's early afternoon here so I will see what I can find in the mean time as I have not encountered this issue before.
Can you put a space after the hash and save the file and try again but I don't think it will make any difference.
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space here]::1 localhost
To eliminate it being browser related do you have another browser to test it with - Firefox for example, or Opera perhaps?
Can you ping 127.0.0.1
Go to
start>Run...type
cmdclick OK
A console window opens
type
cd C:\Windows\system32hit enter
next type
ping 127.0.0.1hit enter
Should look something like this
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C:\WINDOWS\system32>ping 127.0.0.1
Pinging 127.0.0.1 with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Ping statistics for 127.0.0.1:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 0ms, Maximum = 0ms, Average = 0ms
C:\WINDOWS\system32>
To copy and paste what you see click on the tiny
c:\ icon top left of the console window.
A menu will show.
Click on the
Edit item and you will see
Mark.
Select it then go to the window and drag you mouse over what you want to copy.
Back to the menu and select
Copy.
Now back to the forum reply box, right click in the box and select Paste from the context menu.
Job done.
Just spent several hours trying to find what may be the issue here but nothing came up that related directly except the following link that was referenced from someone who had similar issues that recommended to reinstall TCP/IP:
http://www.zimbio.com/Windows+Vista/art ... ol+WindowsYou may also look at disabling IPv6 (Google it) and see if that helps because normally with IPv6 uncommented in the Hosts file you can access 127.0.0.1 but not localhost - XAMPP uses IPv4.
Sorry I can't be much help as I have exhausted every avenue to resolve this issue - IMHO and if it helps it is definitely PC related now not an XAMPP issue.
There is a new version of XAMPP 1.7.1 due to be release after the beta testing which is at stage 4 of usually 6 stages and this new release may or may not improve the situation.