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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Steven Pierce <pa...@speakeasy.net> on 2004/02/18 03:25:08 UTC
[users@httpd] www issue
Good Evening Group,
I am not new to the group, but I am a newbie to Apache. I have a server
(not public yet) that I am starting to set up. I have set up a web
address (Domain I own) and trying to get it working locally before
I open it up to the world.
When I set up the Apache server (Using Linux interface) I tell it
that it is www, but it will only answer to http://localhost/pagedeveloper.
I will send my httpd conf file if needed. I have it listening on port
80. I have tried it as www and localhost.
I have look through some of the books that I have, but did not see
anything that jumps out at me.
Someone could point me in the correct direct, that would be great.
Thank you for your effort.
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Re: [users@httpd] www issue
Posted by Steven Pierce <pa...@speakeasy.net>.
Brian,
Thank you, I will add the information as you have
stated and get back to you on how it worked.
Steven
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On 2/17/2004 at 7:11 PM Brian Dessent wrote:
>Steven Pierce wrote:
>
>> OK.. if I am doing it on the machine that the site is on, does that
>> still need a DNS issue to be resolved??
>
>Yes, every domain that you enter into a web browser must resolve to
>something before the page can load. It doesn't matter if it's on your
>computer or a server far away. If you want to test a domain that is not
>part of the public DNS then you need to add it to /etc/hosts or
>otherwise make it resolveable.
>
>Brian
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Re: [users@httpd] www issue
Posted by Brian Dessent <br...@dessent.net>.
Steven Pierce wrote:
> OK.. if I am doing it on the machine that the site is on, does that
> still need a DNS issue to be resolved??
Yes, every domain that you enter into a web browser must resolve to
something before the page can load. It doesn't matter if it's on your
computer or a server far away. If you want to test a domain that is not
part of the public DNS then you need to add it to /etc/hosts or
otherwise make it resolveable.
Brian
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Re: [users@httpd] www issue
Posted by Steven Pierce <pa...@speakeasy.net>.
Brian,
OK.. if I am doing it on the machine that the site is on, does that
still need a DNS issue to be resolved??
Steven
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On 2/17/2004 at 6:51 PM Brian Dessent wrote:
>Steven Pierce wrote:
>
>> I am not new to the group, but I am a newbie to Apache. I have a server
>> (not public yet) that I am starting to set up. I have set up a web
>> address (Domain I own) and trying to get it working locally before
>> I open it up to the world.
>>
>> When I set up the Apache server (Using Linux interface) I tell it
>> that it is www, but it will only answer to
>http://localhost/pagedeveloper.
>
>This is probably a DNS problem. Apache has nothing to do with how a
>name resolves to an IP address. If you enter "something.example.com"
>into your browser, then a call is made to the system's resolver to get
>the IP address of that hostname. It doesn't matter whether or not
>Apache has been told that its ServerName is "something.example.com" --
>if there's no such name in DNS or in /etc/hosts then the page won't
>display.
>
>If you want to test your domain before it's resolvable with the public
>DNS, then just add the hostnames to /etc/hosts for the 127.0.0.1 IP
>address, e.g.:
>
>127.0.0.1 localhost something.example.com www.something.example.com
>
>Brian
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Re: [users@httpd] www issue
Posted by Brian Dessent <br...@dessent.net>.
Steven Pierce wrote:
> I am not new to the group, but I am a newbie to Apache. I have a server
> (not public yet) that I am starting to set up. I have set up a web
> address (Domain I own) and trying to get it working locally before
> I open it up to the world.
>
> When I set up the Apache server (Using Linux interface) I tell it
> that it is www, but it will only answer to http://localhost/pagedeveloper.
This is probably a DNS problem. Apache has nothing to do with how a
name resolves to an IP address. If you enter "something.example.com"
into your browser, then a call is made to the system's resolver to get
the IP address of that hostname. It doesn't matter whether or not
Apache has been told that its ServerName is "something.example.com" --
if there's no such name in DNS or in /etc/hosts then the page won't
display.
If you want to test your domain before it's resolvable with the public
DNS, then just add the hostnames to /etc/hosts for the 127.0.0.1 IP
address, e.g.:
127.0.0.1 localhost something.example.com www.something.example.com
Brian
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