On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Rex C. Eastbourne <rex.eastbou...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the replies. I am working on a Slicehost server with a static IP > address; it looks something like 173.23.45.67. I'm able to navigate to this > IP address from any computer as if it were any other domain name. What I was > wondering is whether it's possible to navigate to a "subdomain" of an IP > address, so that "testing.173.23.45.67" and "production.173.23.45.67" would > be an actual valid websites. However, I am starting to get the feeling that > this might not be possible.
This is indeed impossible. I wonder where you ever got the feeling that this might be possible. I'll ask the owner of my Slicehost VPS to buy us > a domain name so that I can have "testing.mysite.com", etc. Hopefully that > will make this configuration easier. What you can do is just make up a domain name, and add it to your /etc/hosts file (on the machine you are testing from) So you could add: 173.23.45.67 testing.mydomain.local production.mydomain.local to your /etc/hosts. Important: You need to do this on the machine you run your webbrowser on, not the machine you run your webserver (although it won't harm there either). Krist -- krist.vanbes...@gmail.com kr...@vanbesien.org Bremgarten b. Bern, Switzerland -- A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation. Q: What's wrong with top-posting? A: Top-posting. Q: What's the biggest scourge on plain text email discussions? --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
