On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:48:48PM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 05:11:24PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
> > # allow from localhost # why does this not work?
>
> Are you pointing your browser at
> http://localhost/blah
> or at:
> http://mycomputername/blah
When I point it at http://localhost/~mikel I get
"Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~mikel on this server."
AND the URL in the browser changes to:
http://mycomputername.mydomain.edu.au/~mikel/
(That means that localhost is being resolved to mycomputer.mydomain I
gather)
When I point it at http://mycomputername/~mikel I get
"Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~mikel on this server."
> At a guess, the first should work, and the second shouldn't.
Nope. neither.
If I point it just to http://localhost I get:
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
If I point it to http://mycomputername I get the correct index.html file
in /var/www
> Your browser is free to bind to any local interface it likes when it creates
> a socket to connect to somewhere... default behaviour for sockets is to
> try pick an appropriate interface, so if you point your browser at a
> "real" IP addres, or a domain name that maps to one, it will connect
> from your internet connection's address, not your localhost one.
> I hope this helps (and I hope I'm making sense :)
Dont really follow about the binding.
I understand about mapping to an address if it can loo up an addr from a
name but not the bit about the "from" bit.
Mike
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