I understand that. I should have made myself more clear. I have modified the windows 7 machine host file to the following: 192.168.1.2 mysite_com
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Programmer In Training < p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us> wrote: > On 1/28/2010 1:15 PM, Matthew Smith wrote: > > In the past I just had one machine. I ran apache on it. I modified the > > hosts file to point aliases to the local box. > > > > 127.0.0.1 mysite_com So in my browser, I could type in: mysite_com > > (underscore instead of dot) and bring up the site. Now I have a new box > > running windows 7 that will be the machine I use for dev. I have > > assigned the server a static Ip of 192.168.1.2 and the computer name > > "server". > > > > I have modified the conf file to listen to ip 192.168.1.2 I have tried > > to modify the hosts file on the win 7 machine with the following > > different things: server mysite_com \\server mysite_com > > 192.168.1.2 mysite_com All of these fail to bring up the site. I can > > remote desktop to the machine via its ip or name. What am I doing wrong? > > The hosts file is only for the local machine. It does not redirect to > another machine nor work on any other machine. > > -- > Yours In Christ, > > PIT > Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. > >
