Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-16 Thread David Karlin
Hamish, Thanks for your response. As another user suggested, I set "UseCanonicalName no" and that fixed it (as far as I can tell). I'm guessing though, that not setting a "ServerName" would probably work too. Seems logical. Thanks again, --David On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 09:31:28AM +1000, Hami

Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-15 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 08:54:45PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > The real question is: What is causing the > dotted-quad to turn into a hostname? I suspect I think this is because you have specified a "ServerName" in your Apache configuration. If you remove (comment-out) that entry, it shouldn't

Re: [dkarlin@coloradomtn.edu: Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN]

1999-07-14 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 10:26:11AM -0700, David Karlin wrote: > > > Hi Jeff, > > > First, thanks for the speedy response (4 minutes). > > > Second, I tried your suggestion and set > > > UseCanonicalName no, but after I restarted Apache, it > > > refused all connections, even from the LAN. > > > >

Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-14 Thread William Ono
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, David Karlin wrote: > If .../~username is put in the > address bar (replacing x's with dotted-quad > address), the .../~username > gets turned into hostname/~username and the > browser tries to add .com or .edu or .net or > whatever it thinks w

RE: [dkarlin@coloradomtn.edu: Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN]

1999-07-13 Thread David Karlin
> > Hi Jeff, > > First, thanks for the speedy response (4 minutes). > > Second, I tried your suggestion and set > > UseCanonicalName no, but after I restarted Apache, it > > refused all connections, even from the LAN. > > You need to set UseCanonicalName off, not UseCanonicalName no, or > Apache

Re: [dkarlin@coloradomtn.edu: Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN]

1999-07-13 Thread Rene H. Larsen
http://www.cepheid.nu/~jeff > [finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key] > One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. > -- Chateaubriand (1768-1848) > From: David Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: public_html directori

Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-13 Thread Dan
-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:35:00 -0600 > > Perhaps the dydns.org is the solution. > > That would work. dyndns.com (fee-based) or dhs.org (free). > There are numerous such services. I don't kn

Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-13 Thread David Karlin
> > Perhaps the dydns.org is the solution. > > That would work. dyndns.com (fee-based) or dhs.org (free). > There are numerous such services. I don't know of a better way to do it, > other than asking your ISP for a static IP. If it is a small ISP, they might > do it for a few more dollars each

Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-13 Thread David Karlin
On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 03:59:46AM +, Dan wrote: > host. This is in the httpd.conf file and looks like: > > ServerName your.server.here.net > > You *might* be able to replace the server name with *.*.*.* IP address, but > I'm not sure if that will be accepted. This is a pretty shallow way a

Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-13 Thread Carl Mummert
On Mon, Jul 12, 1999 at 11:15:22PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: > Is this problem on remote machines, or your local machines? The change from dotted-quad to hostname with attempted domain name completion occurs on all machines (LAN and Internet users). It's only a problem outside the LAN, though, bec

RE: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-13 Thread Dan
-dan From: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: David Karlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 02:58:15 - (UTC) On 13-Jul-99 Dav

[dkarlin@coloradomtn.edu: Re: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN]

1999-07-13 Thread Jeff Bachtel
This was the reply sent to me when I suggested turning UseCanonicalName off in apache, hopefully someone else will have an idea how to fix this prob. jeff -- Jeff Bachtel (NOC,CIS,TAMU)http://www.cepheid.nu/~jeff [finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key] One is

RE: public_html directories not accessable outside of LAN

1999-07-13 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Jul-99 David Karlin wrote: > > My hostname is not registerd, so of course > this doesn't work for internet users, > although users on the LAN have no problem, > because that hostname is recognized on the > LAN and the domain completion is not done. > > The real question is: What is causi