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Re: PHP Runs In WinXP Command Window But Not In Browser [message #173699 is a reply to message #173656] Fri, 29 April 2011 19:45 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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On Apr 24, 9:23 am, "James Carlock" <jcarlo...@somemail.com> wrote:
> : Hi Jim,
> :
> : I'm new to this and do not see why I would want
> : to change the DNS once it is assigned. I thought
> : that the DNS just translates user friendly host
> : names into IP addresses. Would I need to change
> : the DNS if the host name and IP address remained
> : the same?
>
> No, if your IP does not change, you do not need to
> worry about it, except when you change to a another
> HOST (or possibly other situations).
>
> : One concern that I do have is storage since I will
> : need to store and process several very large files.
>
>> Configure Apache on your XP machine to run PHP and
>> then use your IP address as a SERVERNAME for the
>> very first parameter. You can use the hosts file
>> to configure the IP address to the host name as
>> well for a quick and easy way to configure DNS
>> for self-testing on XP.
>
> : ServerName, in httpd.conf, is localhost:80.
> : Should I change that to the IP address I get from
> : ipconfig? When you say I can use the hosts file
> : to configure the IP address to the host name, do
> : you mean to do the same mapping on my machine that
> : the DNS does on the web host?
>
> The HOSTS file on a machine provides a quick way to
> tell Apache (if you wanted to test things before
> uploading them to your HOST) where to reach a domain
> name configured for testing.
>
> You can find the hosts file in the following space:
> %systemroot%\system32\drivers\etc\
>
> It might be located in another space if you run an
> x64 version of Windows.
>
> The "hosts" file is a plain text file which reads
> something like:
>
> # Start of entries inserted by
> # Spybot - Search & Destroy
> # Copyright 2000-2008 Safer Networking Limited
> 127.0.0.1 yyour_ssample_ddomain_nname.com
>
> SpyBot Search & Destroy uses it to prevent visiting
> remote sites and which helps prevent your machine
> from visiting viral/SPAM/unorthodox sites. You can
> use it to tell Apache where to reach an example
> domain. It provides the same information that DNS
> provides, but gets read before the software goes to
> an outside DNS to find the information. Once found
> in the HOSTS, most software uses that and does not
> go out to an outside source (server). Above, I did
> change the unorthodox domain name that SpyBot placed
> in there to something that will not upset anyone
> here and is unlikely to get used anywhere/anytime.
>
> I do not use LOCALHOST for much of anything. However,
> I read that using LOCALHOST inside of Apache might
> create some problems. I can not confirm that without
> making a lot of changes and I do not have the time to
> test such things.
>
> SpyBot Search & Destroy uses the "hosts" to store the
> domain names of perhaps 1000 or more domains that
> they found as lude, crude, porn or what ever and it
> prevents the machine from going to an outside DNS to
> look up those domain names and visiting those.
>
> I have not followed the thread here, as I've been a
> tad busy with other things. Forgive me for being a
> tad slow on my reply.
>
> The details that follow apply to running/hosting an
> Apache server on your own machine.
>
> httpd.conf
> Listen = 80
> ServerName = your_ip_address
>
> Hope this helps. Good luck.
>
> --
> Jim Carlockhttp://www.facebook.com/jim.carlock

Thank you for your very informative post. When my kids were
teenagers, I used the "hosts" file to block known undesirable sites by
setting their urls to the IP address of a mathematics learning site.
If anyone tried to access an off-color site they would get some
mathematics instead.
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