Apache, Virtual Hosts, Linux hosts file

[Zbigniew Koziol]

Stephen wrote:
> I have a Linux box (Mandrake 10.1) running Apache 2.0.
> 
> I am using it for testing of PHP-MySQL  scripts.
> 
> I have it working, but I had to map the virtual urls to the Linux box's 
> ip address in the Linux hosts file.
> 
> I am using a web browser on another machine on my network. If I do not 
> have the entries in the Linux box's hosts file, I get the default Apache 
> welcome page.
> 
> I am not using DNS, just entries in the hosts file on the machine I am 
> running the browser on.
> 
> Why do I need the entry in the Linux box's hosts file? I am considering 
> the possibility that I have a configuration problem. She not the entry 
> in the VHosts.conf file for the virtual hosts be sufficient?

How your browser is supposed to know otherwise where to send request if 
you do not use DNS entries?

> I am not trying to use a browser on the Linux box!


So, windows, heh?

zb.

> 
> Thanks in advance!


-- 
Zbigniew Koziol, SoftQuake^(tm) Open Source Business Solutions
Web Development, Linux, Web Mail Fax Voice Servers, Networking
Consultations, Innovative Technologies Tel/Fax: 1-416-530-2780
Toronto,  Canada,  http://www.softquake.ca,  info-lcEyp1+e+UdAFePFGvp55w at public.gmane.org
--
The Toronto Linux Users Group.      Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org
TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns
How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml