hi

i'm a newbie and need a little help...

i have set up a red hat linux box within a windows network as a web server. the web server can only be accessed within the local network.

using a web browser on a windows machine i can access the web files i wish to by entering the ip address as the url. however, i would like to be able to enter a domain name (e.g. linux.work.local) instead. could anybody out there please tell me how i could set up the linux box to allow this?

thanks in advance for any help!

ashley

you could configure apache in your httpd.conf file to do this... if your going to have the linux box host the web server...

the web server has been configured using apache. i just used the default red hat installaed apache package and did a little tweaking.

within the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file i have the following:
ServerName linux.work.local
ServerAdmin root@localhost
Listen 192.168.0.6:80
Port 80

i can access my web files using http://192.168.0.6 from a windows box browser, but not http://linux.work.local

If you want to access your apache server using something like http://name.of.your.server/. You should place in your c:\windows\hosts file line like this
192.168.0.6 name.of.your.server
If you have 1-3 windows machines it will be easear to so rather then setup BIND on the linux

tried hosts file within a windows 2000 machine (in both C:\WINNT and C:\WINNT\system32\drivers\etc directories), but still won't find my site. may have to stick to typing in ip address.

You probably need to set the hostname for the linux machine as well. The easiest way to change hostname is to type at a command prompt, as root:

hostname <hostname you want>

If you want to be absolutely sure the change is made, edit /etc/sysconfig/network and set HOSTNAME=<hostname you want>

Now issue:

service network restart

and now when you type hostname you will see <hostname you want.>

A good practice is to also edit /etc/hosts and enter a line for your local system. DO NOT ERASE THE EXISTING ENTRY. Doing so will render most of your daemons inoperative. Just follow the existing syntax and add a new entry with your ip address. Hope that helps.

hmmm,.....can you have more then 1 hostname for 1 ip?

As far as the hostname of the machine for itself (per setting it with the HOSTNAME command), no. You can only have (correct me, someone, if I'm wrong) one hostname that your machine uses. You can set-up multiple hostnames in /etc/hosts and DNS.

Happy new year!

Try to do this it should work. I've just tried this.

On win2k machine in the file c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts you should place thease lines:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.6 linux.work.local
Save it. Open command prompt window and type this ping linux.work.local
It should answer something like this:
Pinging linux.work.local [192.168.0.6] with 32 bytes of data:

after this if your linux box is online you should receive:
Reply from 192.168.0.6: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.6: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128
Reply from 192.168.0.6: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Then you can try to access http://linux.work.local/ from you brouser

Good luck!