You need to tell you own machine where to look for the name. On Windows (this is out of memory since I'm on MacOS X) you go to System32/drivers/etc/ and edit the hosts file. Then you simply point your "wasatch" to 127.0.0.1 and if you configure Tomcat correctly you should get to the site.
Kind Regards, Nitai On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Benjamin Davis <[email protected]> wrote: > I do this because that is how I have always done it. My first personal > webserver was running on Win 98 and I have just gone up from there. I never > did realize that you could give the site a name that the computer would > recognize as local instead of on the internet. That is why I would use the > localhost and then a port number to access the different sites. If there is > a way to make it work besides that I would really like to understand how. I > have tried to put in a name such as "wasatch" and then register that with > OpenBD, but to no avail. Is there something more that I am missing? -- Razuna SaaS On-Demand - Hosted Digital Asset Management Solution http://www.razuna.com/ Razuna - Open Source Digital Asset Management http://www.razuna.org/ Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/sixsigns --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Open BlueDragon Public Mailing List http://groups.google.com/group/openbd?hl=en official site @ http://www.openbluedragon.org/ !! save a network - trim replies before posting !! -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
