Re: help with localhost please.

[Wayne <inf...@pi...>]

Dieter Simader wrote:

> localhost should resolve to localhost.your_domain not localhost.com unless
> of course you own localhost.com

I don't have a DNS yet, so my domain, I beleave, is localdomain.

>
>
> What you are actually doing is requesting the login.pl script from
> the server running at www.localhost.com.

Can you tell me how I'm doing this, so that I can stop doing it.

>
>
> Also check if you have a 'AddHandler cgi-script .pl' line in your
> httpd.conf file. htdoc is not normally setup to process perl scripts.

I put this in according to the set-up instruction of sql-ledger.
The place of the AddHandler cgi-script.pl was at the end of
httpd.conf. As I learn more I'll put them where they should
be.

>
>
> You can also check if everything is working by using dnhttpd. cd to the
> dnhttpd/exec directory and start the private web server (type in ./dnhttpd
> on the command line). Then type in http://127.0.0.1:8000/login.pl into
> your web browser. To load the administration module type in
> http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin.pl

If dnhttpd is a directory, then I don't have one. This is accorden to
the find command.
Thanks for your time.
Wayne

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>
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> On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Wayne wrote:
>
> > If I cd into /usr/local/Apache/htdoc and enter the command
> > "netscape index.html.en ", the page that comes up
> > informs me that apache is installed okay. As for the
> > running of apache, the ps -ax command informs
> > me that the httpd is running.
> > What next?
> > Wayne
> >
> >
> > Richard Eicher II wrote:
> >
> > > Your web server is not running or installed.
> > >
> > > Rick
> > >
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