On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:59:38PM -0400, Kim Mackey wrote: > OK, I finally have it working at about 99%. Maybe not quite that > much depending on how you look at it. > > > the final problem I am having is probably related to how I set up my > network when I installed OpenBSD 3.9 In previous installations of > OpenBSD I just accepted the defaults during the network card setup > and everything worked out ok. this time I have been struggling with > my host name and domain name. The problem for me right now is I > don't have a domain name for this network and before my domain was > just defaulted to my.domain. But now It seems to want to act like I > am some how a DNS or something, I'm not sure. > > Anyway the symptom is that when I visit my wiki site I go there with > the url 192.168.1.106/wiki/ but as it starts to load the page it > changes my url to myhost.my.domain/wiki/index.php/Main_Page and then > fails to load. but if I type the url as 192.168.1.106/wiki/index.php/ > Man_Page it will load the page just fine. From there I can click on > the links and every thing continues to work fine. (On some pages if > I leave the page up for a little while it will automaticallyswithc > the url to the myhostname.my.domain and fail to load. I just retype > the url with my local IP and things load back up fine again, but I > have to leave that page or it will fail again. > > I hope I can fix this problem without having to reinstall OpenBSD > (and all) again.
As suggested, using /etc/hosts is a good option. It's also not too hard to change your host- and domainname, but that is probably not what you want to do. For a more simplistic solution, look up ServerName in /var/www/conf/httpd.conf. Joachim