We are going to access the Apache service on our machine by opening a web browser, and navigating to Apache's URL.
1. Open your web browser.
2. Type
http://localhost
into the address bar, and hit Enter.3. Your browser will display the following message to you:
We used the web browser to access Apache, and in return, it showed us a quick verification that everything was hooked up correctly. Our computer knew that we were trying to access our local Apache service because of the URL http://localhost
. The URL http://localhost
actually maps to the address http://127.0.0.1:80
, which is the address and port of the Apache service. You will see 127.0.0.1
come up again when we discuss CouchDB.