Apache help needed - never touched it before

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Hi,

This will be my first attempt with Apache and I was going to install a local test server on one pc and use another as a client but I got stuck already. I've had a look at the wiki and I don't think I even reached the hard part lol

If I'm running it locally on a win32 machine (using the msi install) what are my network domain and dns details? The XP network wizard gives me options to connect to an existing network but what do I do in this instance as I would have thought I need to configure somewhere.

Long term I want to use the apache to query an odbc server on my existing network but walk before run etc. :)

Thanks,


Whoop
 
Hi,

From what I remember Apache uses port 8080 by default. Install Apache, start the server and then use a web-browser to navigate to:

http://localhost:8080

That should bring you to the welcome page.

Once you've got that working you can try connecting from your other machine, substituting in the IP address of the Apache machine for localhost. That should display the same welcome page. You're then up and running.

Hope that helps.
Jim
 
by the sounds of it your windows XP might be in stand alone mode.
go through the internet connection wizard and select directly connected to the internet via LAN.

The domain is LOCALHOST, ignore DNS...


Also, make sure you havn't installed IIS on XP as this will conflict with apache.

Hope that helps....
 
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