Hello everybody.

For testing reasons i setup 2 virtual hosts.. one is called test1 and the other one is called test2...

if i was to type in test1 or test2 in the browser it doesn't find it.. but if i type in localhost it finds the first page, which is test1... if i type in the ip address of the machine it finds test1..
the webpages are all internal.. so i want to be able to type in either test1 or test2 and get the page... is this possible without setting up the dns table....

i tried from a w2k machine and its the same problem....
modified the host file but this didn't help.

this is my redhat 9 , apache httpd.conf file for your review.
--
<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin ddarkman@hotmail.com
ServerName comgen
ServerSignature email
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/test1
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml
LogLevel debug
HostNameLookups off
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *>
ServerAdmin ddarkman@hotmail.com
ServerName test2
ServerSignature email
DocumentRoot /var/www/html/test2
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm index.shtml
LogLevel debug
HostNameLookups off
</VirtualHost>

when you state that you modified the hosts file, you mean you did:
192.168.1.1 [realhostname] test1 test2

Can you ping both test1 and test2?

modified the host file on my win2000 machine as such
192.168.2.9 test1
192.168.2.9 test2

on the linux machine i basically what i put on the main posting..
-on the linux machine, if i typed in http://test1 it wouldn't find the page but if i typed in localhost it finds the test1...

so, your linux box does know that it have three names (localhost, test1 and test2).

edit /etc/hosts and add "test1" and "test2" to the line that contains localhost...