DHCP and Accessing my site

[slimx3m]

i just started my dhcp server using fedora 9 and it works great, but whenever i try to access my site it just gives me a network connection error. but an outsider is able to access my server remotely. is there any thing that i need to setup in specific on my dhcp that i will be able to access my site locally?

thanks in advance

[briantan]

How is your server connected? Directly to internet or via a router with port forwarding?

[slimx3m]

my server is connected via a router with port forwarding.

so my network connection goes... router=>server=>clients pc

makes sense?

[slimx3m]

my server is connected via a router with port forwarding.

so my network connection goes... router=>server=>clients pc

makes sense?

[briantan]

It seems that local pc cannot access website external ip address via router port forwarding.

What you can do is add ServerAlias to httpd.conf like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName www.mydomain.com
ServerAlias www1.mydomain.com
.....

Assuming that your webserver ip address is 192.168.1.2, add this line to /etc/hosts of Linux pc and/or C:\WINDOWS\system32\etc\hosts

192.168.1.2    www1.mydomain.com

Edit: Should be C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

[slimx3m]

briantan,

thank you for your help but that didn't work out. i'll check more infoamtion about this and keep you updated.

[briantan]

With ServerAlias, you access your website via www1.mydomain.com.

[slimx3m]

Originally Posted by briantan

With ServerAlias, you access your website via www1.mydomain.com.

briantan,

i know i should be able to and i've done that before. but whenever i try to access the site with "ServiceAlias" i get a

"Address Not Found"
"Firefox can't find the server at www1.mydomain.com."

and i have that ServiceAlias added to my hosts. i even reset my server network manager and restarted apache to see if it works.

NOTE: the www1.mydomain.com doesn't work either internally or remotely. i even try it on the server and it just takes forever trying to connect to the www1.

are there any other thoughts on what would it be?

thanks in advance

[briantan]

Should be "ServerAlias" not "ServiceAlias" in httpd.conf.

"192.168.1.2 www1.mydomain.com" is to be added to hosts file of internal client PCs that runs browser. Try to run "ping www1.mydomain.com" and "ping 192.168.1.2" after adding to verify connectivity. (change 192.168.1.2 to server's ip)

Add it to server's /etc/hosts if you're running browser at server.

Alternatively, you can try access website by IP address.

[slimx3m]

no success. i can not either ping www1.mydomain.com or access it locally. i think i found the problem. i have my local and external host the same, so whenever i try to access my server locally it takes me to the internet. i can ping it with the ip address, but if i put the ip address on the browser it takes me to the net and it won't connect.

i'll make some modifications in my server, any other thought are welcome thnx for your help so far

[slimx3m]

after my changes still no success