> Is it actually a stone cold fact that Apache can't cope with .local as I > don't see any documentation explaining it? Works just fine for me, doubt it's a bug in your version: NameVirtualHost *:80 <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName localhost ErrorDocument 404 "this is localhost" </VirtualHost> <VirtualHost *:80> ServerName foo.local ErrorDocument 404 "this is foo.local" </VirtualHost> $ PS1="" GET http://localhost/xxx this is localhost GET http://foo.local/xxx this is foo.local GET http://127.0.0.1/xxx this is localhost GET http://127.0.0.2/xxx this is localhost --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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