On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 6:42 AM, François Patte <francois.patte@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Le 08/08/2011 23:33, Veeti Paananen a écrit : >> On 08/09/2011 12:23 AM, François Patte wrote: >>> Bonsoir, >>> >>> I have been trying for many days to use swat with firefox, typing in >>> the url form: >>> >>> http://localhost:901 >>> >>> This failed because firefox try to open this url: www.localhost.com >> >> This is just a guess, but perhaps your /etc/hosts file is missing >> something like this: >> >> 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost (your hostname) > > No! My /etc/hosts is (this is the file written by fedora installer): The fedora installer has no way of knowing what domain name you want to pretend your box will be seen to the web by, so the one written by the installer is going to be missing the information you need to connect. > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost4 > localhost4.localdomain4 > ::1 localhost localhost.localdomain localhost6 > localhost6.localdomain6 As you see. No mention of the domain name you expect your computer to have been automatically assigned. Simply put, the host name you told the installer has nothing to do with the domain names visible on the web. You have to get the right to use a name on the web, and you have to tell the rest of the web that you want the machine to be known by that name. Maybe you don't want to do that, or can't. In fact, you probably don't, just yet. In that case, you can use the hosts file to tell you machine what it should see itself as on the web, without telling the rest of the web. Or you can set up a DNS server on your local LAN, but I'm guessing you don't want to go that far yet. You might want to start with <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host_name> and <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_file>, then maybe look at <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_dns>. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name> is available in a lot of languages if you have a language that works better for you than English or the other major languages. Check the list of languages on the left. At some point, the reason the behavior you observe is not particularly strange after all should become apparent, as will the way to get the behavior you want. Joel Rees -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
