Re: apache and php

[Matthew Weier O'Phinney <matthew@weierophinney.net>]

-- Chris Lale <ctlale@coolscience.co.uk> wrote
(on Wednesday, 20 November 2002, 12:11 PM +0000):
> 
> 
> Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> >-- Chris Lale <ctlale@coolscience.co.uk> wrote
> >>The system is a stand-alone home box with a dial-up modem. I assume that
> >>setting ServerName http://127.0.0.1/ is appropriate.
> >
> >Actually, set ServerName to 127.0.0.1 or localhost, like thus:
> >    ServerName 127.0.0.1
> >or
> >    ServerName localhost
> >
> >DON'T specify it as:
> >    Servername http://127.0.0.1
> 
> 
> I am not sure that you are correct. Here are the relevant comment lines 
> from the original /etc/apache/httpd.conf file:
> 
> # If your host doesn't have a registered DNS name, enter its IP address 
> here.
> # You will have to access it by its address (e.g., http://123.45.67.89/)
> # anyway, and this will make redirections work in a sensible way.
> 
> Anyway, it works for me!

You enter it in httpd.conf as "127.0.0.1" but you /access/ it in your
/browser/ as http://127.0.0.1/ -- that was the point I was making.

-- 
Matthew Weier O'Phinney
matthew@weierophinney.net