[Opensim-users] Win 7. Opensim 0.8.1 host http not found

[Chris Nelson]

Thanks for the reply.
Had a bit of a play around. Ended up downloading the Imprudence browser
which worked! Not sure why Firestorm wouldn't access it.

C.

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 11:27 AM, Dahlia Trimble <dahliatrimble at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The "absconded by gnomes" message is the message which the simulator sends
> to normal web browsers and usually means the http server in the simulator
> is working. I don't use Firestorm personally, but I have seen cases in the
> past where leaving off the trailing "/" character in some viewers would
> prevent a login. Perhaps using http://127.0.0.1:9000/ might work better.
>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 5:52 PM, Chris Nelson <cnelson1844 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have installed the binary distribution 0.8.1 onto a Windows 7 machine
>> and followed the instructions in the readme file.
>> When I try and log in with Firestorm from the same machine using
>> http://127.0.0.1:9000 it comes up with a pink screen and the message
>> 'host http not found'.
>> When I tried entering the address in chrome (http://127.0.0.1:9000) to
>> check if the service was running I got the message 404 - 'The page you have
>> requested has been absconded by gnomes...'
>> I have tried opening the port on Windows and scouring the documentation,
>> to no avail.
>>
>> Can anyone point me in the right direction to fix this problem?
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Chris
>>
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