get_file_contents() does not work for localhost

PHP
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Hello, I have problem with file_get_contents() in my localhost.
When i try

echo file_get_contents('http://localhost/index.php'); // it output error of 
Warning: file_get_contents(http://localhost/index.php) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. in C:\\www\\Apache2\\htdocs\	est.php on line 2

// but when i try 
echo file_get_contents('http://www.google.com/') // it works

my http://localhost/index.php just content a string “<h1> It works</h1>”
Does anybody know why ? I thought my firewall is blocking the connection, so when I disabled my firewall, it still not working. Thanks for any of your help.

2

What error do you get?
Do you have allow_url_fopen = On in your php.ini?

3

Thanks for your prompt reply, allow_url_fopen is on. I just found the solution by just echo file_get_contents(‘index.php’); (without http://localhost/) . Before this I got this error
Warning: file_get_contents(http://localhost/index.php) [function.file-get-contents]: failed to open stream: A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond. in C:\www\Apache2\htdocs\ est.php on line 2