Thanks Jared. I'm wishing I hadnt fallen for that old "I use Apache and it's a piece of cake" rubbish now. For a coldfusion developer, who has never had a lot of involvement with server administration, specially in Unix, it's not a piece of cake at all.
[A] For example, what is 'UseCanonicalName Off'? [B] Why do I have to have DNS entries for everything if I'm only using my local folders, for local access, and nothing whatever to do with the internet? And since I dont have my own DNS server set up on this machine does that mean I have to have one now? Or do i have to add entries for all these in an external DNS, which means they wont be available when I'm offline, which was the whole point in the first place - to set up my dev machine so i can run my dev versions of the sites i'm working on. [C] And what is this section about? <IfModule mod_userdir.c> [D] What does this line do: HostnameLookups Off I'd have thought it does exactly the opposite of what I'm trying to do. But apparently not. [E] My apache installation set up the default home page to be at C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs and that's where localhost lands. ColdFusion also installed CFIDE and CFDOCs under there too, but I dont think that's a very good place to be putting web pages of any kind. I want to move it all to c:\sites. What does that change? Where is your default home page, and CFIDE and CFDOCS? Sorry for being so dumb on this, but every time I think i have it worked out, another 50 or 60 parameters emerge that I have no idea about and I've never seen before. Not even in the sample httpd:conf. But I do appreciate your efforts on this. It's a big help to a poor old confused developer. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 4/25/05, Jared Rypka-Hauer - CMG, LLC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike, > > Here's a snapshot of my vhosts.conf file from my SuSE 9.1 server, > running Apache 2.37 I think... whatever comes with SuSE 9.1: > > <VirtualHost *:80> > # Note that the server name and server alias work together > # to allow both a local name and an internet name. > # Both need to be in DNS > > ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ServerName myserver > ServerAlias myserver.example.com > > # DocumentRoot and DirectoryIndex are self-explanatory > DocumentRoot /srv/www/vhosts/myserver > DirectoryIndex index.cfm > > # Custom logfile setup > ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/myserver-error_log > CustomLog /var/log/apache2/myserver-access_log combined > > # Misc setup parameters > HostnameLookups Off > UseCanonicalName Off > ServerSignature On > </VirtualHost> > > # This is essential to allow Apache to read the folder > # designated as the DocumentRoot in the vhost config block > <Directory "/srv/www/vhosts/myserver"> > Options Indexes FollowSymLinks > AllowOverride None > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Directory> > > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/srv/www/vhosts/myserver/cgi-bin/" > <Directory "/srv/www/vhosts/myserver/cgi-bin"> > AllowOverride None > Options +ExecCGI -Includes > Order allow,deny > Allow from all > </Directory> > > <IfModule mod_userdir.c> > UserDir public_html > Include /etc/apache2/mod_userdir.conf > </IfModule> > > Please note that the Directory section is as important as the vhost > section and the DNS entries. Without all the pieces in place it won't > work. > > Laterz! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:204222 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
