[TriLUG] Problems with webserver at home

[Roy Vestal]

Worked like a champ!

10.0.0.1 hostname site1.example.com site2.example.com ...

Now off to build a DNS server!

Roy Vestal wrote:
> Ahh...makes sense. Thanks Alan. I'll try it as soon as I can.
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> Alan Porter wrote:
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>>> 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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