[bsgroups] Re: Further answers

  • From: BJ <bj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: bsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:53:19 -0400

Ya know, we've been hacking away for well over a week at just getting apache set up for everybody and I never did get it to run a script locally. I'm just putting this whole issue aside and running on an already set up server online. I just can't be bothered any further right now with all this freaking malarky. Maybe down the road, but right now I'm trying to do PAYING work as well as this stuff, and there are only so many hours in a day. It seems stupid to fight with this right now, when I can just upload and test in a browser (how simple!!!)

Vicki Frei wrote:

Actually, you CAN set up local virtuals with the same sort of thing in the httpd.conf file; I did it a while back, when I had only one drive - now I've got so much else going on in this box that I just use a whole separate partition as doc root.

What's obtuse about apache is the way the "help" info is written, NOT to mention the docs online *sigh*.

Shayne, if you want to set up virtuals, let me look it over again and see if I can remember how I did it before.

V

Jerry McCaffrey wrote:

Folks:

My response to Shayne was a delayed response from a couple days ago, since I was caught up in tracking the storm and watching NO via a weblink.

DAMHIK is a term obviously unique to the newsgroup I hang out on: rec.woodworking. Some of their terms include: DAMHIK = "Don't ask me how I know."; DAGS= "Do a Google search."; SWMBO = "She who must be obeyed (wife)." ; and BORG = "Big Orange Retail Giant (Home Depot)" which will assimilate all retail competition.

Shayne, I'm no PHP guy, but I did develop several Intranet sites using ASP 3.0 and MS IIS. IIS lets you set up virtual sites with just a point and right click procedure. I was easily able to store my various sites all over the place on my test server and then upload them correctly to different places on the live servers. That said, Apache is more obtuse for this procedure. You can change the root by modifying httpd.conf in the conf directory under Apache. They say you can also setup virtual sites with this file, but that seems to be what I was talking about in the last email where a hosting service will have multiple websites running off the same IP and server, differentiated by obviously name. I have kept my current projects under the htdocs folder and sometimes in that directly. One of the quirky things about PHP running at least on the test server is that without PHP running correctly some of the script will run if it is html-like making you think it is a programming error when in fact PHP is not processing the page. Very frustrating.

Jerry










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