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.
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.
By edit do you mean delete 127.0.0.1 localhost and add (say) 127.0.0.1 mcjlocalhost?
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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