On Thursday March 23 2006 5:46 pm, serross wrote: > I'm new to this so please be patient. > I have a standalone Win XP SP2 system with dial up to the Internet which > I want to run the Apache web server on to test code before uploading to > the web. In the install directions, it says that it will ask for a > Network Domain, Server Name in the format |server.mydomain.net. > How would I have this for this computer??? Wouldn't I have to have a > registered DNS server and a full time connection to an ISP?? > > TIA > SR > > > -- Well, I haven't run apache on Windows, but the basic concepts should be the same as in a *nix install: 1) You do have to name your Web server machine. In XP, it's as simple as going to System Properties via My Computer, or Control Panel | System and adding the computer name and domain. 2) You do need to register the domain name with a registrar. The easiest for you might be to have your ISP create the DNS records for your Web server. HTH. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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