Re: [Sheflug] Apache

[John Delaney <nospam [at] myopenapps.com>]

Ian Wright wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have been trying to set up Apache on my LAN but don't seem to be having
> much success. The linux box it is on says it is installed OK (i.e going to
> 'localhost' in the browser gives me the Apache start-up page) but when I try
> to look at this machine (192.168.1.2) from a browser on the windoze box I
> just get a 'page cannot be displayed' message. I also tried setting up
> Sambar on the windoze box to see if I could make things work the other way
> round but, although again I can see Sambar as 'localhost' on the win box,
> trying to access it across the network gives me a message saying that 'the
> server is not accepting connections' or something similar. Needless to say,
> the network is working OK apart from this and I can mont one machine on the
> other, ping back and forth and run the various machines one from the other
> using vnc so what am I missing? Thanks,

Try setting up a VirtualHost in httpd.conf, and modifying /etc/hosts 
accordingly.


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