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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!qns3.qns.com!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!gatech!cs.utk.edu!gaia.ns.utk.edu!usenet From: larson@monster.chris.com (Chris Larson) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Configuring NCSA httpd, Help! Date: 31 Mar 1996 16:20:06 -0500 Organization: UNiversity of Tennessee Lines: 20 Sender: larson@monster.chris.com Message-ID: <87buld0xkp.fsf@monster.chris.com> References: <3159a816.474186@news.csus.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: tchm10a3.rmt.utk.edu In-reply-to: wleong@sfsu.edu's message of Wed, 27 Mar 1996 20:50:49 GMT X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.1 In article <3159a816.474186@news.csus.edu> wleong@sfsu.edu (Jerry Leong) writes: > See, I wanted to run the httpd as a standalone(is that the word?) > process on my home machine without connecting to the Internet. I have > assigned a host name (not a valid DNS) to my box. How can I access the > homepage of the user on this machine? By using netscape, I thought of > using http://myhostname/users but it didn't work that way since > myhostname itself is not a valid DNS. > One other thing, if I've reconfigured the httpd, do I need to > restart my computer for the change to take effect? Is the hostname of your system in /etc/hosts ? Pu it in that file with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. THen it should be found. I think that sending a kill -HUP to the first server process will make it restart and reread the config files Also, it'll probably be http://myhostname/~users/ (note the "~") unless you put a "directory" for the user at the httpd root. chris