Hi all,

I have situation like this

1) Centos 6.5 installed with PHP,Mysql and Apache 2.2
2) A domain name (godaddy) pointing to this server via a static ip
3) Port forwarding in the ISP Router to redirect all the request to port 80 be redirected to this server via 80 port

Everything works fine when the site is accessed from outside the network. But when its accessed inside LAN its saying failed to load no data received.



i have hosted the site using default root for the internet access and i have tried the virtual host to get the intranet access work

my httpd conf file looks like this

### Section 2: 'Main' server configuration

ServerAdmin root@localhost

UseCanonicalName Off


DocumentRoot "/var/www/html/xxxxx/web/admin/"

NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@xxxxxx.in
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/xxxxx/web/admin
ServerName www.xxxxxxx.in
ServerAlias xxxxxxxxx.in

ErrorLog logs/xxxxxxx-error_log
CustomLog logs/xxxxxx-access_log common
</VirtualHost>





1)How can i make it happen such that all clients can access the same site via a site name other than typing the ip address in browser.

2) Is there any method by which i can do it other than editing the hosts file in every client machine ???

dnsmasq is one option, but you'd need to make the dnsmasq server be the dns resolver for all the client machines. I do this on my LAN, dnsmasq serves up lan-only resolving and passes on anything unresolved locally to my external dns servers.

If my understanding on your scenario is correct, your outside users can access your website by domain name, hence, we can say that they were able to resolve the domain name to your server.

Can your internal clients resolve the hostname?

@Doug G ..That was a new info .. let me try it out...


@ilesterg .. No for internal clients its saying failed to load no data received.

@Doug G ..That was a new info .. let me try it out...


@ilesterg .. No for internal clients its saying failed to load no data received.