André Warnier! you said "Well actually, I was asking the question because I already gave you the answer in a previous post. So make an effort and read it this time :"
There are several very nice people trying their best to help me, so I may have missed what you had said or I tried what you said and it didn't work. I also have some medical problems here that interfere with my concentration. I really don't need the snappy remarks! I'll take this time here to say thanks to the others that are trying to help me! After this I may just unsubscribe from this forum. From: André Warnier Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:19 PM To: users@httpd.apache.org Subject: Re: [us...@httpd] Re: Help - Name Server - Maybe Michael Rogers wrote: > That why I am asking the questions! If I know I might be able to make it work. Well actually, I was asking the question because I already gave you the answer in a previous post. So make an effort and read it this time : quote I) computers work with IP addresses, not with names. That may surprise you, but it is so. When you tell your browser to get "www.google.com" : - it first looks in its own local "hosts" file to see if there is a translation for "www.google.com" into an IP address like 1.2.3.4 The local hosts file can be found : under Unix/Linux, in /etc/hosts under Windows, in windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts - if the local hosts file does not provide a translation, then your browser asks "the DNS system". That is something complicated, but basically it means that it will need the IP address of another computer known as a DNS Server, and it will send a message to that IP address, asking for the IP address of "www.google.com" - if the browser cannot find finally an IP address for www.google.com with any of the above, it gives up and tells you so. unquote So, when one of your internal workstations is told to access "http://www.michaelrogers.com";, it will do like it is explained above. And, for the IP address of "www.michaelrogers.com", you want your internal workstations to obtain the internal IP address 10.0.0.115, because you don't want them to try some Internet address out there, when the Apache server is right under their nose at the IP adress 10.0.0.115, right ? So you have 2 choices in order to obtain that : - either you have an internal DNS server, that could respond to the enquiries of your internal workstations, and give them "10.0.0.115" as response to the question : what is the IP address of www.michaelrogers.com" ? - or, you add a line into each local workstation's "hosts" file like : 10.0.0.115 www.michaelrogers.com The second one is the easiest to do, if you only have a few internal workstations. Try it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org Michael S. Rogers (406) 967-2385 Web Sites: http://www.michaelsrogers.net & http://www.michaelsrogers.net/trainwreck/Wreck.html
