RE: Virtual Hosts - Newbie question
Title: RE: Virtual Hosts - Newbie question hosts.sam is a sample hosts file. Only the hosts file needs to be changed. A reboot is not necessary but you will have to close all your browser and command line windows for them to realize the change. -Larry -Original Message- From: Lance Lavandowska [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 10:46 PM To: Orion-Interest Subject: Re: Virtual Hosts - Newbie question On NT you shouldn't need to reboot to take advantage of changes to Hosts (I never have had to). If you are on another Windows platform (such as 2000) look for a file named hosts.sam. On older windows there are actually more than one hosts file, and we've never been able to establish exactly which one you need to change (we just change them all), and they do require a reboot more often than not. - Original Message - From: Boris Erukhimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:08 PM Subject: Re: Virtual Hosts - Newbie question You need to set up your own little DNS. I assume you're on NT otherwise as a UNIX user you'd sure knew how to do it. If so 1. Open a file \WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\Hosts 2. Below the line 127.0.0.1 localhost Add a line 127.0.0.1 www.example1.com 3. Reboot That should do it ~be
Re: Virtual Hosts - Newbie question
just to eliminate the obvious: have you made sure that http://www.example1.com is pointing to your box? (trying pinging to be certain). Otherwise, your xml files look good. Lance Lavandowska www.Brainopolis.com - Original Message - From: G T [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:47 PM Subject: Virtual Hosts - Newbie question I followed the steps given in OrionSupport.com to set up virtual hosts but I am still not able to run it successfully. On typing www.example1.com it refuses to look into my server, instead it tries to go to internet
Re: Virtual Hosts - Newbie question
I'm not able to ping either of the 2. How do I make it point to it. I am able to ping local host. And I am able to run all the applications part of the default-web-app. Is there any thing else that needs to be done to point www.example1.com to my box - Original Message - just to eliminate the obvious: have you made sure that http://www.example1.com is pointing to your box? (trying pinging to be certain). Otherwise, your xml files look good. Lance Lavandowska www.Brainopolis.com - Original Message - From: G T [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:47 PM Subject: Virtual Hosts - Newbie question I followed the steps given in OrionSupport.com to set up virtual hosts but I am still not able to run it successfully. On typing www.example1.com it refuses to look into my server, instead it tries to go to internet _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: Virtual Hosts - Newbie question
You need to set up your own little DNS. I assume you're on NT otherwise as a UNIX user you'd sure knew how to do it. If so 1. Open a file \WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\Hosts 2. Below the line 127.0.0.1 localhost Add a line 127.0.0.1 www.example1.com 3. Reboot That should do it ~be That should do it G T wrote: I'm not able to ping either of the 2. How do I make it point to it. I am able to ping local host. And I am able to run all the applications part of the default-web-app. Is there any thing else that needs to be done to point www.example1.com to my box - Original Message - just to eliminate the obvious: have you made sure that http://www.example1.com is pointing to your box? (trying pinging to be certain). Otherwise, your xml files look good. Lance Lavandowska www.Brainopolis.com - Original Message - From: G T [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:47 PM Subject: Virtual Hosts - Newbie question I followed the steps given in OrionSupport.com to set up virtual hosts but I am still not able to run it successfully. On typing www.example1.com it refuses to look into my server, instead it tries to go to internet _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com
Re: Virtual Hosts - Newbie question
On NT you shouldn't need to reboot to take advantage of changes to Hosts (I never have had to). If you are on another Windows platform (such as 2000) look for a file named hosts.sam. On older windows there are actually more than one hosts file, and we've never been able to establish exactly which one you need to change (we just change them all), and they do require a reboot more often than not. - Original Message - From: Boris Erukhimov [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Orion-Interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 3:08 PM Subject: Re: Virtual Hosts - Newbie question You need to set up your own little DNS. I assume you're on NT otherwise as a UNIX user you'd sure knew how to do it. If so 1. Open a file \WINNT\system32\drivers\etc\Hosts 2. Below the line 127.0.0.1 localhost Add a line 127.0.0.1 www.example1.com 3. Reboot That should do it ~be
