[wellylug] Re: Can't access linux conf site

[Mark Foster]

On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Jamie Baddeley wrote:

> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 16:16 +1300, Jethro Carr wrote:
>> On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 16:13 +1300, Jethro Carr wrote:
>>> also, could anyone please ping the site, and send me the ip address?
>>> I'll see if that works.
>>
>> sorry, I had a typo in the ping command.
>>
>> I can ping it and get the ip address, but I can't access the site with
>> the ip address.
>>
>> ideas?
>
> apache virtual hosts.
>
> jamie

Yes.

Short version is that if you can ping the IP but not browse to it, and can 
browse everywhere else, the problems likely within the webserver itself.

I can access the URL fine so if it was their-side, its gone now...

PS: to expand on what Jamie said, Apache Virtual Hosts are the means by 
which the server differentiates between 'Give me the website on 1.2.3.4' 
and 'Give me the website known as my.web.site.address on your IP'.

Thus allowing multiple websites to be hosted on the same IP, thus Virtual 
Hosting.

(In case this wasnt obvious to anyone...)

Mark.