Unwanted rewrite followup/continuationn

[Israel Brewster <israel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ok, so I have managed to work around the problem below by putting the  
hostname of the Apache server in the /etc/hosts file on the machines  
that need to access the server by IP, so when it changes the IP to  
the hostname the client can still find the server. This, however,  
feels like a kludgy workaround, and wouldn't be feasible if we had  
more than a couple machines that needed to access this server via ip.  
Is there any way to convince Apache to NOT change the IP inn the URL  
to the hostname? Thanks for any assistance that can be provided.

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Israel Brewster
Computer Support Technician
Frontier Flying Service INC.
5245 Airport Industrial Rd
Fairbanks, AK 99709
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On Jan 8, 2007, at 9:55 AM, Israel Brewster wrote:

> I am running into a somewhat annoying problem with Apache 1.3.29 on  
> an OpenBSD 4.0 box. When attempting to access the server via IP  
> address, it loads the first page fine, but after clicking a link to  
> another page it rewrites the IP address in the URL to the hostname  
> of the machine. This promptly results in a "server not found"  
> error, as the hostname of the machine is not in DNS. How can I get  
> appache to leave the URL alone? The config of this server is mostly  
> still the default, aside from some authorization directives. Due to  
> the network setup, simply setting the ServerName directive to the  
> IP won't work, the problem there being that the IP the machine is  
> accessed at is different depending on if you are accessing it from  
> inside our network or outside. Actually, inside our network our  
> internal DNS is set up so you can access the server by the  
> hostname, but outside you need to use the IP (we don't want to make  
> this server easy to find). Thank you for any assistance you can  
> provide.
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> Israel Brewster
> Computer Support Technician
> Frontier Flying Service INC.
> 5245 Airport Industrial Rd
> Fairbanks, AK 99709
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