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Welcome! If you got here, you probably searched for "Could connect to localhost, but not to its IP address" or some variation of that phrase.

That's how I got here. To writing this post, that is. After unsuccessfully trying many clever variations of my query theme in finding an answer to this problem, we decided to troubleshoot it ourselves, ended up fixing it, and decided to blog for the benefit of the wider community.

If you're lucky, (a) our solution works for you and (b) this post shows up in the first few pages of your Google results saving you much time you might have wasted in following dead-ends.