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[arifdayfolks]

Dear all,
i have server running as proxy server and firewall(Fedora 6, IP private : 192.168.0.3, computer name : home) , and i want built website (just access for LAN) , i have already configure apache,php, mysql and it woks, but how to translate address from http://192.168.0.3/ or http://home/ to http://mylocaldomain.local?

thanks

[stevea]

Your dns service should supply the name resolution.

[gthill]

Originally Posted by arifdayfolks

Dear all,
i have server running as proxy server and firewall(Fedora 6, IP private : 192.168.0.3, computer name : home) , and i want built website (just access for LAN) , i have already configure apache,php, mysql and it woks, but how to translate address from http://192.168.0.3/ or http://home/ to http://mylocaldomain.local?

thanks

On a LAN you need to edit the /etc/hosts file with an alias for the machine that is running apache.
If this is the ipaddress of your webserver and it is repeated on every hosts file on the LAN

192.168.0.3 pc3 anything anyotherthing apachemachine mylocaldomain.local

then by typing any of these into your web browser you should connect to the machine running apache.
http://pc3
http://anything
http://anyotherthing
http://apachemachine
http://mylocaldomain.local


on the local machine, you could type
http://localhost
or
http://localhost.localdomain
as well as the previous five. (All nodes should have identical /etc/hosts files)
which would work as well, that is because of this line

127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost



I don't think you need dns service running on a LAN , only for WWW

[arifdayfolks]

i try to edit file etc/hosts , but I still can not browse my website from any computer on LAN , how to resolve this problem with dns




----i'm newbie---

[GrapeShot]

I put together a quick tutorial on setting up a DNS server on F7. You may view it here.

gthill was right in his previous post though. If you LAN is small enough and doesn't change too often, then editing the /etc/hosts (c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on Windows) will work well too. Just make sure that each computer has the same entries.

If you decide to run DNS, you will have to point all of the computers on your LAN to the DNS server.

[arifdayfolks]

Thanks stevea, gthill and grapeshot , i combine all your post, now i can browse myserver from windows client and linux client, my website running well with apache

great tutorial.....!!!