My http://localhost/ redirecting to www.localhost.com

Question

I checked my httpd.conf file and nothing found anything, let me know other areas whr i need to look.

Although my other links are working fine like --

Answer 1

here is a nice article about this helpful feature of Firefox that becomes annoying once you have fixed the problem and still get redirected: Filed under ‘Annoying things I keep forgetting how to fix…’:

To disable this ‘feature’ do the following:

Type about:config in the browser bar
Type browser.fixup.alternate.enabled in the search box that appears
Right click on the browser.fixup.alternate.enabled that appears in the filtered list below and choose Toggle to set the value to false

http://cdivilly.wordpress.com/2013/08/15/disable-firefox-redirecting-to-localhost-com/