Re: [users@httpd] testing server

Gerwin van de Steeg <gerwin.van.de.steeg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> · Mon, 25 Sep 2006 11:50:15 +1200

Just for a thought, make the hosts file look something like this:

127.0.0.1 localhost websites agendatest

note the lowercase

and also for your apache config make sure you turn on Name based virtual 

hosts and use lowercase hostnames.

read: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/vhosts/name-based.html
for more info on setting up name based virtual hosts

Also, the order in which the hosts file gets used in windows 

applications depends on the function to do DNS resolution (there are at 

least 2 and they use a different order with regards to hosts file and 

DNS lookups)

Finally, you probably won't need the following section in your config

Alias /AgendaTest/ "C:/Websites/AgendaTest/"

Larry wrote:

Apache 2.0.47, PHP 4.3.4, MySQL 4 something.  All installed on Win XP

Pro SP2, 2 gig mem.  

I am trying to setup a testing server for Dreamweaver 8.  Most of my
work is in subdirectories of C:\Websites, for example
C:\Websites\AgendaTest.  I would like to use Apache with PHP as a
testing server.  I am getting confused between Virtual Hosts and
Aliases.  I thought that adding the lines:

127.0.0.1  Localhost
127.0.0.1  Websites
127.0.0.1  AgendaTest

to Hosts in \Windows\System32\Drivers\etc in combination with virtual
hosts in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\conf\httpd.conf would

do it, but I guess not.  

In httpd.conf I set up (at various places)
Servername localhost:80
DocumentRoot "C:/Websites"
<Directory "C:/Websites">
Alias /websites "C:/Websites/"
<Directory "C:/Websites">
	Options Indexes MultiViews
	AllowOverride None
	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /AgendaTest/ "C:/Websites/AgendaTest/"
<Directory "C:/Websites/AgendaTest">
	Options Indexes MultiViews
	AllowOverride None
	Order allow,deny
	Allow from all
</Directory>
<VirtualHost *>
	DocumentRoot "C:/Websites"
	ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *>
	DocumentRoot "C:/Websites/AgendaTest"
	ServerName AgendaTest
</VirtualHost>

What am I screwing up here?

Thanks,
--

Larry
rapp@xxxxxxx

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