On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:15 PM, Rex C. Eastbourne <rex.eastbourne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:31 AM, André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: >> [...] >> >> A short primer : >> >> The Internet in general works with IP addresses, not host names. >> Host names are for humans. >> >> When in the browser of your workstation, you enter a URL like >> http://hostname.x.y.z/something/something-else.html >> the first thing the browser does is try to resolve the hostname >> "hostname.x.y.z" into an IP address. >> For that to work, there must be an entry somewhere in your local "hosts" >> file, or in a DNS server known to your workstation, that can "translate" the >> name "hostname.x.y.z" into an IP address. >> If that does not work, then your browser will tell you "host not found", >> before even trying to send a HTTP request to that host. >> >> Your webserver, no matter what is its configuration, will only get >> involved once it receives the browser request. >> According to your symptoms, that does not seem to be the case yet. > > > Thanks for the replies. I am working on a Slicehost server with a static IP > address; it looks something like 173.23.45.67. I'm able to navigate to this > IP address from any computer as if it were any other domain name. What I was > wondering is whether it's possible to navigate to a "subdomain" of an IP > address, so that "testing.173.23.45.67" and "production.173.23.45.67" would > be an actual valid websites. However, I am starting to get the feeling that > this might not be possible. I'll ask the owner of my Slicehost VPS to buy us > a domain name so that I can have "testing.mysite.com", etc. Hopefully that > will make this configuration easier. > > Rex It is entirely possible I do it all the time it sounds like you are having dns issues now. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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