# How to make http://localhost works WITHOUT specifying port number in Prodigy annotation?

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-make-http-localhost-works-without-specifying-port-number-in-prodigy-annotation/3750>\
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**Created:** [December 16, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-make-http-localhost-works-without-specifying-port-number-in-prodigy-annotation/3750 "2020-12-16T17:27:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 5:27pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-make-http-localhost-works-without-specifying-port-number-in-prodigy-annotation/3750/1 "2020-12-16T17:27:54Z")

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**Author:** ![ines](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/ines/32/3_2.png) [@ines](https://support.prodi.gy/u/ines)\
**Post date:** [December 16, 2020, 10:52pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-make-http-localhost-works-without-specifying-port-number-in-prodigy-annotation/3750/2 "2020-12-16T22:52:42Z")

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If you serve Prodigy on the default port (typically `80`), that will map to just `localhost`. In all other cases, you need to specify the port – but this isn't really a limitation of Prodigy and just how browsers work in general. Also see here:

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/47051896/how-use-localhost-access-without-specify-the-port-number>