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[Fred Stutzman <fred AT metalab.unc.edu>]

And just in case anyone doesn't know, the loopback address for a localhost 
address is 127.0.0.1.

Thanks,
Fred



On Mon, 22 May 2006 fusion AT ibiblio.org wrote:

> Hi everyone, I'm a new Lyceum dev and we recently discovered an interesting 
> problem while setting
> up my installation. In short, you may have problems if you set MAINDOMAIN 
> equal to 'localhost' in
> wp-config. Wordpress will think it is successfully setting cookies for users 
> while the browser
> does not receive them. This has to do with the fact that the cookie spec 
> outlines that there must
> be a certain number of periods within the domain name, and of course 
> 'localhost' doesn't follow
> normal domain name conventions. Thus you may need to use the server's actual 
> IP address or
> equivalent domain name for this variable.
>
> - Jameson Lopp
>
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