On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 8:31 AM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote:
> Rex C. Eastbourne wrote: > [...] > > A short primer : > > The Internet in general works with IP addresses, not host names. > Host names are for humans. > > When in the browser of your workstation, you enter a URL like > http://hostname.x.y.z/something/something-else.html > the first thing the browser does is try to resolve the hostname > "hostname.x.y.z" into an IP address. > For that to work, there must be an entry somewhere in your local "hosts" > file, or in a DNS server known to your workstation, that can "translate" the > name "hostname.x.y.z" into an IP address. > If that does not work, then your browser will tell you "host not found", > before even trying to send a HTTP request to that host. > > Your webserver, no matter what is its configuration, will only get involved > once it receives the browser request. > According to your symptoms, that does not seem to be the case yet. Thanks for the replies. I am working on a Slicehost server with a static IP address; it looks something like 173.23.45.67. I'm able to navigate to this IP address from any computer as if it were any other domain name. What I was wondering is whether it's possible to navigate to a "subdomain" of an IP address, so that "testing.173.23.45.67" and "production.173.23.45.67" would be an actual valid websites. However, I am starting to get the feeling that this might not be possible. I'll ask the owner of my Slicehost VPS to buy us a domain name so that I can have "testing.mysite.com", etc. Hopefully that will make this configuration easier. Rex
