Originally Posted by garymayor

Ya get linux instead all your problems forever more will be sorted windows has almost had it's time

Originally Posted by JdS

Hello gardolas,

Search your filesystem for a file named HOSTS, look inside it to see that it has this inside it:

If you can find the file and it has that line it already, then you must check the apache error logs. That will usually tell you where and what is the problem.

It may be also that your HOSTS file has been 'disabled', i.e. it is renamed to HOSTS.SAM or something like that. If that's it, you can just rename it back.


Hi garymayor, I appreciate your reply to this thread but comments like these are completely unnecessary here.

Originally Posted by JdS

I hope you were not trying to tell me this... because I only wrote http://www.desilva.biz/apache/virtual.html more than 3 years ago GOD! Has it been that long???

Originally Posted by jnorris

... For instance: Virtual hosts ask for the domian name as does the hosts file. It never occurred to me for ages that in fact you have to specify www.domain.com AS WELL AS domain.com in hosts. I thought a domain name was without the www!

Originally Posted by jnorris

Incidentally (running all this locally to test sites out) - I open a Command Window, navigate and run Apache (which runs in the foreground so I get no further prompts) I then open another DOS window to run mySQL server - which does the same, then I open another window to run msql client - how do I write a batch file to do all 3 things autonatically?

Originally Posted by JdS

Yes, that's what I do too... without a DNS, I am afraid this is all we can do... unless someone else around here knows something we don't.

But how do you make this work with your virtual hosts setting in the httpd.conf file? Are you using SERVER ALIAS too?

Jon] Heres one of my Virtual Host sections:

<VirtualHost *>
ServerName loire-style.com
ServerAlias http://www.loire-style.com
ServerAdmin webmaster@loire-style.com
DocumentRoot "C:/Documents and Settings/Jon/My Documents/webs/loire-style.com"
ErrorLog logs/loire-style.com-error_log
CustomLog logs/loire-style.com-access_log combined
UseCanonicalName off
AddHandler server-parsed .shtml
Options FollowSymLinks +Includes
AddType text/html .shtml
AddOutputFilter INCLUDES .shtml
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>
Include conf/ssl.conf
</IfModule>
</VirtualHost>

Jon] By far the best description of getting Apache to work that actually takes care to explain when something can be read two ways (as so often is the case!) is minitutorials.serveftp.net. He has updated it with my extra comments too, I believe. I just upgraded from Me to XP and it's fine.

I don't use a batch file, instead I use shortcuts on my Desktop. I have one for each...

1. To rename the HOSTS file.
2. 1 x START Apache & 1 x STOP Apache.
3. 1 x START MySQL & 1 x STOP MySQL.

Jon] There has to be a way to get a batch file to do 3 things one after the other!! Anybody else out there?
Please send the batch file to show me how you get it to start AND then stop when you want it o...surely that's 6 batch files in all!!??

It's as uncomplicated as that with Windows ME but I suppose it's quite different with Windows XP. This is why I usually don't reply to questions that have to do with WinXP - simply because I wouldn't know what I am talking about...