aha! starting to make sense then, this means that people from outside will 
see the public ip address that i give then that is then forwarded to the web 
server,
next:-) where should i put the htpasswd file the apache online docs suggest 
/usr/local/apache/ as a directory but that's not on my system, do i get to 
put it where i like with permmisions set to apache.apache 0700 ?

bascule
p.s this is very useful help, i've never tried to set up a web server before

On Monday 23 September 2002 9:03 pm, you wrote:
> bascule wrote on Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 08:22:48PM +0100 :
> > thanks todd, that did it,
> > just one thing though, the default page still says 'welcome to
> > <myinternalserverip>,
> > looking at the index.shtml file - i'm not an html coder - i see:
> > <CENTER><H1>Welcome to
> > <!--#echo var="SERVER_NAME" -->!</H1>
>
> That VAR is a variable that is passed to it by YOUR browser.  So if you
> put an entry in /etc/hosts such as:
>
> <yourinternalserverip>    something.ridiculous.com
>
> Then point your browser to http://something.ridiculous.com, it will say
> "Welcome to something.ridiculous.com".  When you turn off that
> UseCanonicalName setting, you are telling the server "use whatever name
> the client gives to me as my name".
>
> Blue skies...                 Todd

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