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From: Andrew <perrya@python.shoal.net.au>
To: Geoffrey Robinson <grobin@accessv.com>
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Subject: Re: Trying to play with Apache on a non-network connected system
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Does your home machine have a hostname? Also you may need to setup your
/etc/hosts file with entries for localhost and your hostname.

If apache starts up automatically you probably have a file apache.sh in
/etc/local/etc/rc.d which gets run at startup.

I have successfully accessed my home freebsd box over the internet using
it's dynamically allocated ip address, although it usually has a bit of a
dummy spit if I put a ~username after the ip address so I just use
http://xxx.yyy.zzz.aaa

hope this helps
Andrew Perry

 On Sat, 27 Dec 1997, Geoffrey Robinson wrote:

> Date: Sat, 27 Dec 1997 07:56:15 -0500
> From: Geoffrey Robinson <grobin@accessv.com>
> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Trying to play with Apache on a non-network connected system
> 
> I'm trying to lean Apache 1.3a1 on my home computer, which has just a
> dial up, dynamic IP Internet connection. My problem is that when I run
> httpd it comes up with an error saying host lookup failed. What I want
> to do is be able to access it from Netscape over localhost weather I'm
> logged on to the Internet or not. When I am logged on I want other
> people to be able to access it over the Internet using my dynamically
> assigned IP address. Can I do this easily?
> 
> Also: The Apache install put httpd into the system startup files. How do
> I take it out?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -- 
> Geoffrey Robinson
> grobin@accessv.com
> Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
>