Re: newbie -help!: multiple local domains under apache] (agai n)

On 16 Aug, Nick wrote: > Kurt Boyer wrote: > >> Nick, >> >> Some questions for you: >> >> 1) On the line that says: NameVirtualHost 222.222.222.222:8081 , >> have you changed the IP address to your server's IP address? >> For example, my IP is actually 205.216.147.36:8081 . The >> 222 stuff is just made up for an example only. >> >> 2) On the lines that say: ServerName badboy.carrierworld.com , >> have you changed it to reference your actual server name? >> Badboy is just an example. When I log into one of my >> server's, I see the following: >> >> Digital UNIX V4.0F (Rev. 1229); Wed Dec 29 22:14:14 MST 1999 >> zapper:/home/dvlp/kboyer> >> >> That tells me that "zapper" is the name of my server. > > Aha. I just figured out what i was doing wrong. I actualy only have one > machine, and i was trying to serve the pages i wrote on it back to myself on > that machine for debugging purposes. I have Linux RHat 6.2 and did the > worksattion installation, which means i do not actually have a DNS server set > u[p opn my machine, or an IP address other than what i defined in > "hosts"...... I guess that means that i can't use virtual hosts...(told you i > was a newbie :p) > > I could try and install a dns server on my machine to do what i specified > above; do you think it is worth it though ? The thing is i do have quite a > few concurrent sites i would like to test, and to avoid me having to change > the paths i use in my scrtipts each time i changed server (ie when i send the > sites to the internet hosts), i was hoping to use relative paths (instead of > /home/carrierworld/forms/script.php, use just /forms/scripts.php, and set the > server path to be /home/carirerworld/; this is useful bweecause the path to > our site on the internet host is smthing like /home > /WWW8/carrierworld.com/htdocs/, so all the relative paths would be relative > to the root folder of the site, namely /home/WWW8/.carrierowlrd.com/htdocs > for the server and /home/carrierworld/ for me....) > > The only way i can think of doing that would be to change the server > directory in httpd.conf each time i want to debug a different website and > restart apache........ surely there must be a better way ? > > Nick > You shouldn't need DNS if you have correct entries in your /etc/hosts for each of the virtual domains you want to run. -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA