hitting apache across home network with hosts file

[Matthew Smith <chedderslam@xxxxxxxxx>]

In the past I just had one machine.  I ran apache on it.  I modified the 
hosts file to point aliases to the local box.

127.0.0.1 mysite_com So in my browser, I could type in: mysite_com (underscore instead of dot) and bring up the site. Now I have a new box running windows 7 that will be the machine I use for dev.  I have assigned the server a static Ip of 192.168.1.2 and the computer name "server".

I have modified the conf file to listen to ip 192.168.1.2 I have tried to modify the hosts file on the win 7 machine with the following different things: server   mysite_com \\server   mysite_com 192.168.1.2   mysite_com All of these fail to bring up the site.  I can remote desktop to the machine via its ip or name. What am I doing wrong?