[or-cvs] r20364: {website} Add a note about changing the listen-address in privoxy's co (website/trunk/docs/en)

[sebastian at seul.org]

Author: sebastian
Date: 2009-08-24 21:39:45 -0400 (Mon, 24 Aug 2009)
New Revision: 20364

Modified:
   website/trunk/docs/en/tor-doc-unix.wml
Log:
Add a note about changing the listen-address in privoxy's conf

Using the default config leads to problems at least on Debian Squeeze,
I suppose some Ubuntus will have the same issue.

Modified: website/trunk/docs/en/tor-doc-unix.wml
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--- website/trunk/docs/en/tor-doc-unix.wml	2009-08-25 01:38:44 UTC (rev 20363)
+++ website/trunk/docs/en/tor-doc-unix.wml	2009-08-25 01:39:45 UTC (rev 20364)
@@ -78,6 +78,15 @@
 the line.</b>
 </p>
 
+<p>
+On some distributions, localhost is mapped to an IPv6 address, and Torbutton
+(see next step) might not be able to connect to Privoxy. If this is the case,
+change "localhost" to "127.0.0.1" in the line <br />
+<tt>listen-address localhost:8118</tt><br />
+so that it now reads
+<tt>listen-address 127.0.0.1:8118</tt>.
+</p>
+
 <p>Privoxy keeps a log file of everything passed through it.  In
 order to stop this you will need to comment out three lines by inserting a
 \# before the line. The three lines are:<br />