CODEWITHSUNDEEP
apacheunixcentosvirtualhost
user983223
user983223

Reputation: 1154

can't see site on network but can see it locally

I have added a virtual host container in my httpd.conf file.

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www/dev_sites/site
ServerName site.aa.local
</VirtualHost>

In my /etc/hosts file on my server computer it is:

127.0.0.1 site.aa.local

If I go to site.aa.local on my machine I can see my site. However if I go to that same address on another computer on my network it doesn't find the page. However, if I do aa.local it finds that. Any idea why a computer on my network can't see it?

I'm on a centos machine.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1590

Answers (1)

Eduardo Ivanec
Eduardo Ivanec

Reputation: 11862

site.aa.local points to your loopback interface in your machine. Just in case: it's a virtual interface that is only accessible from your machine by definition.

For that name to work in another computer, site.aa.local should point to your machine's LAN IP address (either via /etc/hosts or DNS) and the Apache server in your computer should be listening in all interfaces (it most likely is).

Try adding YOUR_LAN_IP site.aa.local to the /etc/hosts file in the other computer, or just visit YOUR_LAN_IP if that is the Apache default virtual host (that is, if it's the only one or the first defined).

Upvotes: 2

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