[TriLUG] Problems with webserver at home

[Roy Vestal]

Ahh...makes sense. Thanks Alan. I'll try it as soon as I can.

Alan Porter wrote:
>> How would I go about adding the virtual hosts?
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>> 10.0.0.1 firstsite.example.com
>> 10.0.0.1 secondsite.example.com
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> /etc/hosts
> 10.0.0.1 firstsite.example.com secondsite.example.com
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> You're dealing with two things here: DNS and HTTP.  Your DNS is hosed,
> but your HTTP is fine.
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> Fix the DNS by adding entries to /etc/hosts.  The HTTP will work
> like it always has.
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> 1) internal machine wants secondsite.example.com
> 2) looks up IP in /etc/hosts
> 3) connects to 10.0.0.1
> 4) sends http request to apache, asks for secondsite.example.com
> 5) apache matches that request with the right virtualhost stanza
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> It does not matter that all of your virtual hosts resolve to the
> same IP address.  That's what they do on the external internet,
> right?  So it is no different on your internal LAN... they just
> use private addresses internally.
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> Alan
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