From: "Aaron Bannert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2001 5:53 PM


> On Mon, Dec 31, 2001 at 05:36:22PM -0600, Austin Gonyou wrote:
> > If I add a directory to my httpd.conf and restart apache, or I add a
> > directory to htdocs, then point my browser as such:
> > 
> > http://127.0.0.1/somedir
> > 
> > It hangs until the browser times out. If I do the following though,
> > without restarting apache, etc:
> 
> My guess is your ServerName is set to something that doesn't exist from
> the perspective of your browser. When you request http://127.0.0.1/somedir
> it generates a 301 Moved Permanently to whatever was in your ServerName
> (plus the path and some other stuff), at which point your browser tries
> to resolve that new host. If it cannot it will hang until timeout.

Yes... definately the problem [it bit me just today.]

What would the group think about validating that the ServerName/ServerAlias
directives resolve to a valid Listen'er of this server?

Bill


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