# Calling services through Kong on Docker

**URL:** <https://discuss.konghq.com/t/calling-services-through-kong-on-docker/3697>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Created:** [June 6, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/calling-services-through-kong-on-docker/3697 "2019-06-06T17:41:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![bschermerhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/49beb7/32.png) [@bschermerhorn](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/bschermerhorn)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/calling-services-through-kong-on-docker/3697/1 "2019-06-06T17:41:12Z")

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I have Kong running in Docker on my Win10 laptop.

(And I’m new to Kong as well as Docker, so forgive me if I ask this clumsily…)

Kong is initiated via docker-compose and almost everything seems to be working as expected.

I’m working through the Quick Start and the Configuring a Service tutorials and everything works fine directly from the Kong instance. From my Win10 browser I can also access all the admin API (via localhost:8001). however, I was trying to make the service call using Postman and I can’t ever get a response on localhost:8000.

What configuration am I missing?

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**Author:** ![bschermerhorn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/49beb7/32.png) [@bschermerhorn](https://discuss.konghq.com/u/bschermerhorn)\
**Post date:** [June 6, 2019, 8:43pm UTC](https://discuss.konghq.com/t/calling-services-through-kong-on-docker/3697/2 "2019-06-06T20:43:54Z")

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I’ve (barely) answered my own question. Poking around other threads on here I saw a theme of using 127.0.0.1 instead of localhost, so I tried that and - voila! - it works.