[oclug] Browser question

[GR Gaudreau]

On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 13:26, Nick Sklavenitis wrote:
> Thats not actually true you have to remember that the document root for
> the server is /var/www/html and so when you are telling your browser to
> point to the following
> http://rocket.rocketman.com/var/www/html/index.html   what you really
> are doing is the following /var/www/html/var/www/html/index.html which
> would bring an error message like you are receiving what you would want
> to do is the following. http://rocket.rocketman.com which is like saying
> in your case http://127.0.0.1 which is localhost. Hope that clears
> things up a bit.

[gr]  That's interesting. I just tried the URL again* and got a blank
page, even though I've created  /var/www/html/ and copied my index page
there. That probably means that I'll have to run the Apache server and
httpd, right? As I stated earlier, I know next to nothing about
networking, but I'm going that playing around with this will teach me
some of it..

* http://rocket.rocketman.com

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