wsmeyer - 7:39 pm on Jul 3, 2008 (gmt 0)

My guess is that you inadvertently set it up so that it sends the request out to the internet and your router is routing it back to your laptop.

In your httpd.conf file the listen parameter should be set to 127.0.0.1 and then in your hosts file you should have entered

127.0.0.1 local.example.com

and that should be it.

William.