On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:30 AM, Krist van Besien <krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 6:15 AM, Rex C. Eastbourne > <rex.eastbourne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> 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. > > This is indeed impossible. I wonder where you ever got the feeling > that this might be possible. > using your own example below and adding "67.148.130.3 test.67.148.130.3" to my /etc/hosts I even created a test theory page that would come up if your dns resolved as such eww yucky. It would not be possible from the outside because your not likely to be able to get that domain name so I can see maybe why you say impossible. I can't see why it would be desirable and I did read it wrong. I thought he was talking about what you put below and worded it funny. But an inside dns you could possibly add the addresses to lookup correctly. Yucky don't use numbers as your subdomain rule of thumb. > 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. > > What you can do is just make up a domain name, and add it to your > /etc/hosts file (on the machine you are testing from) > > So you could add: > 173.23.45.67 testing.mydomain.local production.mydomain.local to > your /etc/hosts. > > Important: You need to do this on the machine you run your webbrowser > on, not the machine you run your webserver (although it won't harm > there either). > > Krist > > > -- > krist.vanbesien@xxxxxxxxx > krist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Bremgarten b. Bern, Switzerland > -- > A: It reverses the normal flow of conversation. > Q: What's wrong with top-posting? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What's the biggest scourge on plain text email discussions? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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