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Posted by Chris Hope on 11/09/16 11:18
Geoff Blake wrote:
> Sorry - please ignore previous request
>
> I found my problem - I had "www" in front of my URL in IE
>
> Why does that affect it.
www.mysite.com and mysite.com are not the exact same domain name and can
point to different IP addresses.
If you want it to work with the www prefix then you need to add that
into your hosts file as well.
> "Geoff Blake" <gdblake-remove-@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
> news:_e9ne.156$F95.1440@nnrp1.ozemail.com.au...
>> Hi
>>
>> Sorry if this is OT but I thought some of you would have experienced
>> this and be able to help.
>>
>> I am new to all this and am trying to set up a Linux machine (Fedora
>> 3) as
> a
>> LAMP server on a LAN with a Windows XP Prof machine. The boxes are
> connected
>> via a cheap switch.
>>
>> I have added the site address to the Hosts file on both machines,
>> flushed all chains from iptables on the Linux machine and there
>> appears to be no firewall on XP.
>>
>> From the XP machine I can telnet mysite.com 80 and get my html test
>> page - however when I use Internet Explorer it cannot find my page
>> and responds "The web page you requested is not available offline".
>> The same thing happens when I use another box with windows 2000.
>> Pressing the connect
>> button just sends it off looking for - what I assume - is a DNS site
>>
>> From the Linux machine I have used Tcpdump to monitor the traffic (at
> least
>> this is making me learn about Fedora) on the XP machine. I get plenty
>> of traffic when I use telnet but nothing when I use Internet explorer
>> - I
> would
>> have expected something not that I understand what the messages mean
>>
>> I've been looking at this for days now so any suggestions (other than
> doing
>> away with windows) would be appreciated.
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