A question about Localhost with Safari

[William H. Magill]

Did Apple change something in Yosemite/Safari so that "localhost" is no longer an accessible DNS address for Safari?

I have no trouble ssh-ing to localhost on my system, but Safari always responds  "Can't connect to the Server."

Note that at one time I was using Apple's Apache via OSX Server, but have since replaced that with MacPorts.
And, I have no idea if  "localhost" worked after I upgraded to Yosemite and OSX Server ceased operation.

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William H. Magill                                                            

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