Newbie question regarding Virtual Hosts setup

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

David H. Ingham wrote:

>Hopefully, a simple question.
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>I have set up a FreeBSD server to develop a web app for a client.
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>my system is:
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>            FreeBSD                       Version 5.2
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>            Apache             Version 2.0.47
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>            MySQL             Version 4.0.16
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>            MySQLCC                     Version 0.9.3
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>            PHP                 Version 4.3.3
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>Now I am able to create the pages, (using Quanta 3.1.4).but I cannot view
>them 
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>from anywhere except the FreeBSD box.
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>Before I upgraded from FreeBSD 4.9 to 5.2, I could get to the site from my
>W2K system, 
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>using a VirtualHost setting and browsing to http://10.0.0.27:5000/login.php
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Forgive me for not answering your question directly;
I'm going to suggest something else; it's possibly better,
and will eliminate a few issues regarding your network
setup in general:

Why not try name-based virtual hosting?  Set up
the following in httpd.conf and restart Apache:


    #
    # Use name-based virtual hosting.
    #
    NameVirtualHost *:80

    # VirtualHost example:
    # Almost any Apache directive may go into a VirtualHost container.
    # The first VirtualHost section is used for requests without a known
    # server name.
    #
    <VirtualHost *>
        ServerName my.examplesite.net
        DocumentRoot /path/to/mydocs
        ServerAdmin me at myhost
    # whatever else, log files, etc
   </VirtualHost>

Then set the hosts files on both server and
clients (esp. clients) something like:

    # Dummy entries for intranet and test sites

        10.0.0.27   my.examplesite.net
        10.0.0.27   my.otherexample.org

Access the sites using the names you've
assigned...

    http://my.examplesite.net/login.php

HTH,

Kevin Kinsey
DaleCo, S.P.