On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 8:26 AM Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 9:18 AM o1bigtenor <o1bigtenor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 7:21 AM Eric Covener <covener@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > > So I'm coming back to my previous question - - - - how do I set up different > > > > FQDNs (hostnames) on 'one' machine? > > > > > > On your client you test from? Edit /etc/hosts and make up whatever > > > hosts you want. > > > For other users? Actually setup the hostnames you need to all point to > > > the same IP. > > > > > OK this I've experimented with. > > If I edit the /etc/hosts file I can add any number of names and they > > all resolve > > to localhost (or the machine but they all resolve to the same place). > > When I change > > the hostname - - - - the FQDN - - - - well I don't see how there is > > more than one > > option for that. So when an application complains that there isn't an > > 'appropriate' > > FQDN (or whatever the actual wording in the complaint was) then the hostname > > or FQDN was 'not' set. > > > > So I can set up /etc/hosts like: > > 192.168.1.2 white > > 192.168.1.2 yellow > > 192.168.1.2 green > > 192.168.1.2 red > > and I have different hosts. But my FQDN is still 'pink' well that > > doesn't seem to work. > > > > So what could I do to resolve this issue? > > > > I cannot use 192.168.1.2 for my FQDN. > > I do not know how to have more than one FQDN. > > > > Do I change my machines FQDN to pink.com and then use the other hosts > > in /etc/hosts? > > > > You can make up FQDN's in /etc/hosts the same way and they'll also > resolve for your clients and be matchable by name-based virtual hosts. > > The machines notion of its own single FQDN is not relevant to 99% of > httpd configurations. It's only relevant if you omit the ServerName > directive and the server has to guess. > I think I understand but - - - - - read the man page for hostname where it states: The recommended method of setting the FQDN is to make the hostname be an alias for the fully qualified name using /etc/hosts, DNS, or NIS. For example, if the hostname was "ursula", one might have a line in /etc/hosts which reads 127.0.1.1 ursula.example.com ursula so what I could do is, using my previous information, set the FQDN to be pink.com so that /etc/hosts would include: 192.168.1.2 pink.com pink 192.168.1.2 pink.com red 192.168.1.2 pink.com green etc and then I could use vhosting so that to the applications that they are hosted on: 192.168.1.2 pink.com red applicationa 192.168.1.2 pink.com green applicationb etc Would that be an 'acceptable way of doing this? TIA --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx