By simon1072581
The system is working well, available fine from the outside. According to netstat, Nginx is listening on 0.0.0.0:80, but when try to connect to the server from itself (i.e. wget localhost or wget 127.0.0.1) it times out.
This is a problem because there is a WordPress installation on the box which isn’t able to run cron jobs - when it tries to connect to itself it times out.
Anybody have any ideas? Thanks I really appreciate your help.
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After some research it looks like the loopback device is not configured on boot. Here is a link I found which helped solve this issue for me in case anyone else has the same problem.
http://serverfault.com/questions/333269/loopback-device-not-configured-on-boot
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