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

Jethro Carr jethro.carr at jedolinux.com
Sat Nov 12 17:36:41 NZDT 2005


On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 17:21 +1300, Mark Foster wrote:

> >
> > 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...

hmm, I can't get it yet.

I can get the page for 2005 & 2004, but not 2006.


I'll wait for tomorrow - possibly they changed something, like the DNS
records, and it may need to sync to ihug's DNS server. Who knows?
Computers are weird. ;-)



> 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...)

cheers Mark - I was okay, but hey, someone on this list might learn
something new. :-)


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Jethro Carr <jethro.carr at jedolinux.com>


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