On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:59:38PM -0400, Kim Mackey wrote:
> OK, I finally have it working at about 99%. Maybe not quite that
> much depending on how you look at it.
>
>
> the final problem I am having is probably related to how I set up my
> network when I installed OpenBSD 3.9 In previous installations of
> OpenBSD I just accepted the defaults during the network card setup
> and everything worked out ok. this time I have been struggling with
> my host name and domain name. The problem for me right now is I
> don't have a domain name for this network and before my domain was
> just defaulted to my.domain. But now It seems to want to act like I
> am some how a DNS or something, I'm not sure.
>
> Anyway the symptom is that when I visit my wiki site I go there with
> the url 192.168.1.106/wiki/ but as it starts to load the page it
> changes my url to myhost.my.domain/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and then
> fails to load. but if I type the url as 192.168.1.106/wiki/index.php/
> Man_Page it will load the page just fine. From there I can click on
> the links and every thing continues to work fine. (On some pages if
> I leave the page up for a little while it will automaticallyswithc
> the url to the myhostname.my.domain and fail to load. I just retype
> the url with my local IP and things load back up fine again, but I
> have to leave that page or it will fail again.
>
> I hope I can fix this problem without having to reinstall OpenBSD
> (and all) again.
As suggested, using /etc/hosts is a good option. It's also not too hard
to change your host- and domainname, but that is probably not what you
want to do.
For a more simplistic solution, look up ServerName in
/var/www/conf/httpd.conf.
Joachim
