When I view http://localhost/ in Google Chrome, it tries to download the homepage as a file, and doesn't display it. I tried http://localhost/ in Firefox 4 and it works fine.
In Chrome though, loading http://127.0.0.1 displays my website [which is PHP btw].
127.0.0.1 is localhost in my /etc/hosts file.
How can I make Chrome load my local website thru http://localhost?
This actually isn't anything wrong with the browser, per se. As I suspect, you created a php file - went to run it form the browser and it downloaded. So you went off, installed php5 and mod_php5 (and various other php packages) then tried again and it failed, again, but now http://127.0.0.1 works! This is simply a caching issue. Chrome remembers that the last time it accessed that php file it was downloaded - so it'll keep doing that until the browsers cache is dumped.
Clear Chrome's cache and you should be good to go!
http://localhost/? – RolandiXor Sep 13 '11 at 21:15localhost/, and I just tried Firefox, and it works. But not in Chrome.. edited question. – Matt Sep 13 '11 at 22:42