Viewing Virtual host from 127.0.0.1 url

[chris9610]

Can you tell me the correct url to view a virtual host from the localhost url?

Say we have (2) hosted domains:
www.mxxdata.com
www.myydata.com

What url syntax is used to call the domains internally.

http://127.0.0.1/???????????????????

I just setup a couple subdomains for testing but they take a while to go into full working order.

TIA

[AbyssUnderground]

You cannot call them internally unless

a) you make an alias
b) you edit your hosts file (but this is not a very good method as youd have to remove them to see the site live)
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[chris9610]

Now that does not seem like a good method at all.

So you are saying that there is no way to sent the connecting sequence like the DNS registar does but internally.

This makes testing difficult. My isp does not allow loop back to the same external WAN IP. So I cannot request a single domain from the wan IP and I cannot request it from a lan IP.

So a virtual host cannot be used for an intranet either.

I think there must be a way other than taking the site off line with an aliase.

[pkSML]

For the intranet setting:

You can use virtual hosts.
If this is a Windows XP computer, check it's "full computer name" on the local file-sharing network. (My computer -> Properties -> Computer name tab)

If Abyss is running on port 80, you can access the default host by http://computername/

All other computers on that file-sharing LAN have access by this method.

For another host, you'd need to run it off a different port for your intranet. Say you want it at port 81. Setup the second host to be on port 81 in Abyss. Then access http://computername:81/ from any LAN computer.

BTW, I'd switch ISPs if that was the case for me! I have earthlink and they're awesome.
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[rrinc]

You could run a DNS server inside your LAN. I've never done this though, so I can't really help. Or I think you could use the hosts file for this situation.
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[chris9610]

Well thanks to you I was able to get things working.

I set up 3 hosts:
site1 "test.mc-data.com" (sub domain)
site2 "office.mcconnellair.com" (sub domain)
site3 "computername"

default paths:
site1 = /www/webroot/mcconnellair/
site2 = /www/webroot/mcdata/
site3 = /www/webroot/

Now when I enter http://computername/ this takes me to webroot.

This allows me to design and test my sub domain websites internally, but I still have some work to do with Ruby on Rails. I thought X2 with virtual hosts would solve my problems there, but I am not sure about that yet.

Thanks again for the help here.

[chris9610]

BTW I did discover you can have more than one host with the same name.

Then turn on whichever one you want to to use and turn off the other. I use this for the http://mycomputer host and testing internally.

I did get Ruby on Rails to run but it does occupy a host and is the only purose you can use the for that particular host. The only setup I could get to work was the exact configuration as the example on the Aprelium example setup.

So if you need to run a website with a mix of Ruby and php then you must use X2 and a domain and then sub-domains for the ruby host and php host. This little fact took hours learn.