Vincent Bray wrote:
On 01/09/07, Malcolm Walker <malcolm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Yes you are correct and I am very grateful for your reply but I find I am out of my depth. I had read (several times both before my post and after your reply) the article on configuring Virtual Hosts and I remain unaware of how to amend the file at conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf to suit local access only. As to the <Directory blocks I take your point but I cannot determine which of the directives to use. My sole aim was in using Apache for testing to add the display of includes. As I have been struggling with a problem that I never expected for over a week it's time I gave it a rest. My general comment on all the Apache help articles both on-line and in the manual is that they clearly state what to do but not how to do it. There is a presumption of knowledge that I do not have. I bought my first computer at the age of 62 on the basis I would catch up - eventually. Thirteen years later it seems I am even further behind than I was then!Please forgive the jibe, but it's perhaps suitable that you're trying to configure server side includes.. A technology nearly as old as yourself :-)
Your jibe is forgiven. {8;-)) But just because the technology is old
doesn't mean it isn't any use. I assume there are `better' and newer
ways of achieving the same object. Perhaps PHP is more appropriate?
Explaining how vhosts work is a time consuming process, and I think the docs would do a better job, so instead, let's try a direct answer. Stick this at the bottom of your httpd.conf and see what happens. NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName localhost DocumentRoot F:/webs/mcjdreamweaver <DIrectory F:/webs/mcjdreamweaver> Options Includes Indexes Order allow,deny Allow from all AddOutputFilter INCLUDES;DEFLATE shtml </Directory> </VirtualHost>
I did `stick' the lines you kindly provided into the httpd.conf file and the mcjdreamweaver site is displayed in my browsers with the URL: http://localhost. So thank you for that step forward.
By edit do you mean delete 127.0.0.1 localhost and add (say) 127.0.0.1 mcjlocalhost?For bonus points, you could edit your hosts file (windows hides it somewhere like c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) so you've got a proper name to use rather than localhost, then repeat that name in ServerName.
Good luck!
I need more than good luck - nourishment not punishment! And thank you for your assistance. Malcolm --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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