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From: larson@monster.chris.com (Chris Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Configuring NCSA httpd, Help!
Date: 31 Mar 1996 16:20:06 -0500
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In article <3159a816.474186@news.csus.edu> wleong@sfsu.edu (Jerry Leong) writes:

>       See, I wanted to run the httpd as a standalone(is that the word?)
>   process on my home machine without connecting to the Internet. I have
>   assigned a host name (not a valid DNS) to my box. How can I access the
>   homepage of the user on this machine? By using netscape, I thought of
>   using http://myhostname/users but it didn't work that way since
>   myhostname itself is not a valid DNS. 
>       One other thing, if I've reconfigured the httpd, do I need to
>   restart my computer for the change to take effect?

Is the hostname of your system in /etc/hosts ? Pu it in that file
with the 127.0.0.1 IP address. THen it should be found.

I think that sending a kill -HUP to the first server process will
make it restart and reread the config files
Also, it'll probably be http://myhostname/~users/  (note the "~")
unless you put a "directory" for the user at the httpd root.

chris