How to fix xdg-open: no method available for opening 'http://localhost:80'

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When I press the button [Go To Application] in the XAMPP 7.3.6 Shows me this:

xdg-open: no method available for opening 'http://localhost:80'

I set the /usr/bin/xdg-open where google-chromium is now chromium. That solved all my problems and bugs but now shows me this new problem and No other question among here solved my question (sorry for the bad english).

When I run ./xampp*, I get this:

xdg-open: no method available for opening 'http://localhost:80'

PLEASE help, I starting to be insane here :(

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1 Answers

The XDG (X development group) has a xdg-utils toolset that are used to open manuals files (e.g., html). You can use lynx in your terminal to open the default web-page at http://localhost:80

sudo apt-get install lynx

and press Go To Application in XAMPP.

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Why this usually doesn't open in GUI web-browser?

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This is because GUI browser are usually configured not to run as root (sudo) user because of security reasons. And although in xdg-settings, it is configured to open in default-web-browser, it's still not gonna open because of browsers are not configured to run via root.

You can check xdg-settings as sudo xdg-settings --list And, you can change xdg-settings config. by editing sudo nano /usr/bin/xdg-settings enter image description here

So, if you want to open your localhost in web-browser then configure web-browser to open as root (sudo) and change xdg-settings accordingly.

As you can see below, I ran wireshark as sudo and opened dumppcap manual (html page) in lynx console based browser. enter image description here

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