The problem is appearantly in the ip-address: 127.0.0.1 or "localhost" is the loopback address. It means "this computer" and it means "this computer" on every computer... So find out the real ip-addresses of the machines on your lan (type "ipconfig" in a dos box on your win2k). Probably the addresses will be something like 10.x.x.x, 172.[16-31].x.x or 192.168.x.x. Those ranges are not in use on the global internet, they are reserved to use on a lan. But there is more: typing something like http://172.18.27.64/ in your browser all the time isn't really appealing, is it? And the number will change over time. If your lan is connected to the internet using a broadband router, there is probably a tiny DNS-server running in that router. Now change the windows-assigned hostname of your intranet-webhost into something decent (property sheet of "this computer" on win2k). The DNS server in your broadband router will take care of the rest (that is: if DHCP is enabled, which usually is the case). Try changing the hostname of your server into "www" and reboot, go to another machine on the lan and type http://www/ (or even just "www") into a browser. If this works there's no need to find out the ip-addresses first. best regards -- Jan----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Cox" <racox@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 3:46 AM Subject: [users@httpd] web server on LAN
Is it possible to have another computer on my LAN at home access the web server as an "intranet" service for development purposes if the Apache is running on a workstation as opposed to a Server? The OS is Win2K w/SP4. If someone does an http://127.0.0.1/, they currently don't see it. What do I need to do if this is possible? Thanks, Richard --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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