RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-20 Thread Bryce Stenberg
Thanks everyone for your help. I now know a lot more about linux networking and the various commands and files that control it. However, I still didn't make an alternate configuration work :( I'll just leave that now to try again with a later version maybe... at least I can still type the manual

RE: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-20 Thread steve
Bryce, If you set down exactly what you want to do, I'm happy to make a stab at it. Mind you, when I go through that process, it often magically sorts itself out before my eyes! Cheers, Steve On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 14:59 +1200, Bryce Stenberg wrote: Thanks everyone for your help. I now know a

Re: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-20 Thread Nick Rout
Not at my linux box now but can't you save named configurations in network manager and switch between them? On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Bryce Stenbergbr...@hrnz.co.nz wrote: Thanks everyone for your help. I now know a lot more about linux networking and the various commands and files that

Re: Networking - equivalent of windows 'alternate configuration' setting?

2009-08-20 Thread Andrew Errington
On Fri, August 21, 2009 12:37, Nick Rout wrote: Not at my linux box now but can't you save named configurations in network manager and switch between them? I don't know either, but you can with 'wicd'. A

Resolving domain name to different IP based on port?

2009-08-20 Thread Phill Coxon
I have no idea if this is possible so thought I'd ask those for more knowledgeable here. I'm doing some work on a client website. I've set up a virtual site locally using apache 2 so that I can have a mirror copy of the site to make changes and test before uploading to the live site. At the

Re: Resolving domain name to different IP based on port?

2009-08-20 Thread Daniel Hill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phill Coxon wrote: I have no idea if this is possible so thought I'd ask those for more knowledgeable here. I'm doing some work on a client website. I've set up a virtual site locally using apache 2 so that I can have a mirror copy of the site

Re: Resolving domain name to different IP based on port?

2009-08-20 Thread steve
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 16:47 +1200, Phill Coxon wrote: I have no idea if this is possible so thought I'd ask those for more knowledgeable here. I'm doing some work on a client website. I've set up a virtual site locally using apache 2 so that I can have a mirror copy of the site to make

Re: Resolving domain name to different IP based on port?

2009-08-20 Thread Phill Coxon
On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 16:53 +1200, Daniel Hill wrote: you could try Sub domains eg, www.examplesite.com for live site (and examplesite.com would redirect to it) and testing.examplesite.com would be the dev site The thing I forgot to mention is that it's a wordpress based site. WordPress