access local html page through "file:///"

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I installed LAMP
and I want to use ajax to write some client information into mysql server on the server side.
I want to test a anonymous browser.
however, with this browser, pages like "http://localhost/test.html" can't be accessed because the browser can't establish a connection to the server at localhost.
but it can access the page through: file:///var/www/html/test.html

however, my intention is to use ajax to write some client information into mysql server on the server side, so through file:/// can't achieve this goal,
are there any potential solutions for this?
thanks!

[Fou-Lu]

Sounds to me that your apache isn't running. You can also try simply attaching to http://127.0.0.1 in case localhost isn't redirected to loopback for whatever reason. If that still doesn't work, check your lamp console (assuming they have one), or check your services to make sure that the apache is running.
file:// is pretty much useless. It works for .html since the browser knows how to interpret .html files. You need to go through http in order to interact at a server level.

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it is running, but the browser has some settings that disallow it to access localhost
I'm just wondering whether it is possible to log client information to the server sql database if I use "file:///"

Originally Posted by Fou-Lu

Sounds to me that your apache isn't running. You can also try simply attaching to http://127.0.0.1 in case localhost isn't redirected to loopback for whatever reason. If that still doesn't work, check your lamp console (assuming they have one), or check your services to make sure that the apache is running.
file:// is pretty much useless. It works for .html since the browser knows how to interpret .html files. You need to go through http in order to interact at a server level.

[Fou-Lu]

No, you can't execute any server commands when accessing via file. Enable your browser access to localhost if you want to use a server side language.