Re: DNS/WEB SERVER WITH APACHE/PHP/WIN98

You don't need the DNS Unless you want to pay for the www.abc.com.my domain. All your remote offices need to do to connect to the server is type in the IP of the server. The remote boxes will be directed into the web root directory. Give it a try, you already have what you want. The only plus to a domain name instead of an IP is remeberability. Since your are setting up the remote boxes (I assume) all you need to do is bookmark your server and teach the end users how to access the bookmark. MK Calvin Chang wrote:

Thank you for your reply. Probably I can explain more detail to you the configuration: I want to install one web server in the main office and 3 pcs at different branches. The main purpose is to online the transactions at branches with main office. The web server is connected to internet using ISDN line with one fixed IP address. I understand that one DNS server needs to be set up in order to allow the branches to get connect with web server. For instance, when someone at branch connect to internet and type www.abc.com.my and this will normally connect to the web server in the main office. How possible this can be done ?

Well, that depends on what you wanna do?

Is it possible to set up a DNS server in a web server ?

A server acting as web server can also host a DNS server. It's just 2 different services/deamons running on different IP ports (http/web commonly uses port 80 and DNS querys uses port 53). If you want the Apache web server service to act as a DNS server, it's not possible as far as I know.

For your information, I intend also to develope in Apache/PHP/win98 environment.

I don't know of any DNS server software for W98. Since DNS is quite a important service I wouldn't recoment running it on Win9X platform. In tesing/development environments you could replace DNS functionallity with the hosts-file. /Johan -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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