Hello!

On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:41:26PM -0800, Bill Culp wrote:

> Ive had this issue with tomcat apache in the past and always
> fixed it by specifying localhost as part of the listen directive
> - not working with NGINX on OS X.
>
> NGINX is responding to 127.0.0.1 - but localhost it just drops
> the connection (its not refusing the connection, just dropping
> it)…
>
> Is there a way to fix this I have tried listen *:80, listen
> localhost:80 and still I cant reach it through the browser
> using localhost.
>
> localhost is resolvable with ping and has its entry in the hosts
> file.

As of now

listen localhost:80;

will only listen on first ipv4 address resolved from the localhost
name. If you want nginx to listen on all ip addresses (likely
ipv4 127.0.0.1 and ipv6 ::1 in your case), you have to list them
explicitly, like this:

listen 127.0.0.1:80;
listen [::1]:80;

Or listen on both ipv4 and ipv6 wildcard addresses, like this:

listen *:80;
listen [::]:80;

Note well that to work with ipv6 addresses you need nginx compiled
with ipv6 support.

--
Maxim Dounin
http://nginx.com/support.html

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