Louis, Thank you for that very complete answer. I tried the first solution, the one that changes /etc/hostname and right off the bat, that worked. I'm gonna try the VirtualHost thing though as it seems to lead to bigger and better things. Thanks again.
--Jeff --- "Louis C. Candell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just emerged Apache 1.3 something to play around > > with it. I have DSL and I'm assigned a dynamic IP > so > > in order for me to use my computer on a WAN, I use > > dyndns.org. I use the IP, jjj.homelinux.com. My > > problem is, when I'm at school, I can get to my > > computer through a web browser no problem. But > when I > > try to go to another directory like > > http://jjj.homelinux.com/tester, it tries to > resolve > > to my local IP on my LAN, instead of > > jjj.homelinux.com. > > > > Are you using apache as a standalone or VirtualHost > server? > > The default setup should work like a charm without > any configuration > to the files within /etc/apache/*. > > What do you have as your computers hostname? Apache > will name itself > what you've assigned as your hostname, so if you've > give your > hostname an internal IP name (i.e hostname > 192.168.0.148), apache > will name itself just that. > > You should try the following: > * rm /etc/hostname > * echo jjj.homelinux.com >> /etc/hostname > * hostname jjj.homelinux.com > * nano -w /etc/hosts > 127.0.0.1 jjj.homelinux.com server a > localhost > 192.168.0.198 server a > jjj.homelinux.com > > > The 'server' and 'a' names are optional, but they > help out > tremendously while doing local browsing, as you can > do 'lynx > a/~louiscandell/' instead of 'lynx > localhost/~louiscandell/' > > Also, I suggest using Apache's VirtualHost > capabilities. > > Add the following (replacing your information with > mine): > > * nano -w /etc/apache/conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf > > <VirtualHost *> > ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > DocumentRoot /home/lcandell/public_html > ServerName jjj.homelinux.com > ServerAlias www.ossh.com jjj (optional) > ErrorLog > /usr/local/www/logs/ossh.com-error.log > CustomLog > /usr/local/www/logs/ossh.com-access.log combined > </VirtualHost> > > > The above with your information will work as > expected, and you can > create subdomains and other cool stuff with > VirtualHosts > enabled. Make sure any path and directory you > specify within the > above section exists, or else apache will refuse to > start. > > If you decide to use the above solution, go ahead > and unhash (remove > '#') the line: > * nano -w /etc/apache/conf/apache.conf > * Include conf/vhosts/Vhosts.conf > > If you do this with the default /etc/apache > directory (I hope you > made a backup before editing the files :p), then you > should be up and > running without a problem. > > > I don't have a static IP so I can't put that in my > > /etc/hosts. I tried playing with the ServerName > > directive, but that didn't help. Does anyone know > what > > I'm doing wrong? > > The apache server needs to be given the name > jjj.homelinux.com, it > wont know what to do, if you dont tell apache that > the above name is > meant to be used with the apache server. The above > steps should > work... they work for me, and I'm on a dynamic IP > just like you. The > above solution shouldnt take you more than 5 minutes > to > accomplish. Also, you cant access your server by > name within your > local environment, so you will have to use 'lynx a' > or 'lynx > localhost' instead of 'lynx jjj.homelinux.com' > > Hit us back up if you have any more questions. > > -- > Louis C. Candell > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Calendar - Free online calendar with sync to Outlook(TM). http://calendar.yahoo.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
