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05-01-2003, 01:24 AM
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Registered: Apr 2003
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change th comp name
can we change localhost to sth different?
and when using apache... we have to write http://localhost can we change it to http://myname ?
TQ |
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05-01-2003, 03:05 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2002
Location: Mosquitoville
Distribution: RH 6.2, Gen2, Knoppix,arch, bodhi, studio, suse, mint
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add
127.0.0.1 myname
to your hosts file in /etc
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05-01-2003, 04:29 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: May 2001
Location: Bristol, UK
Distribution: Slackware, Fedora, RHES
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You might need to tell you http server thats it called myname or you may find it acts a little oddly. You should already have a 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts, you don't need to add a new one, just add myname to the end of the existing one.
cheers
Jamie...
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