Tom Coady said: > > William Hooper wrote: >> Does it work if you go to "myserver/webmail/" > > Yes it does! > >> If so you have an httpd config issue: >> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/misc/FAQ.html#set-servername >> I don't believe the alias portion of the above is the problem (if you >> still have the RPM squirrelmail.conf in /etc/httpd/conf.d). > > No the squirrelmail.conf looks OK but it's true I have no FQDN. I always > run > away and hide at this point as I mistakenly? assume this FQDN needs to be > registered with the DNS whereas the reality is that it should work fine if > I > just tell /etc/hosts the IP for my ficticious domain name? > You only have to register the name if you (a) want to use it on the internet or (b) have a potential conflict with a name already registered. As long as you are running an internal DNS server (or all the machines have the correct values in /etc/hosts) you can use just about anything you want. To avoid (b) above, I avoid top level domains the Internet uses. So for example you could name your web server "mywebserver.coady" and as long as all your machines agree that "mywebserver.coady" is 192.168.0.1 (or whatever) you are ok. If you do want to use it on the Internet, registering a name isn't the only option (but they are getting cheap). There are sites that provide a free subdomain that you use various clients to update to point to your dynamic IP. -- William Hooper
