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PLZ HELP ME


I WANT TO MAKE MY OWN WEBHOST


I HAVE 10 pCS ON MY NETWORK AND 01 SERVER INSTALLED WITH
WIN SERVER 2003 SP2 (ACTIVE DIRY INSTALLED WITH DNS)

THE IP ADDRESS OF MY SERVER IS 192.168.1.1
I HAVE ALSO HOST THE SITE ON MY SERVER WITH APACHE WEB SERVER
I ACCESS MY SITE USING THE URL AS HTTP://192.168.1.1/
I WANT TO ACCESS MY SITE AS NAME LIKE (MYSITE.NET OR NET.MYWEB) FROM LAN PCS HOW IT CAN BE POSSIBLE TO
ACCESS THE SITE USING HOST NAME. THE SERVER ITSELF ACCESS THE SITE USING HOST NAME. WHEN I CHANGE
THE LOCALHOST BUT THE lAN PCS COULD NOT ACCESS EXCEPT IP ADDRESS AND PC NAME.
HOW IT CAN BE POSSIBLE PLZ BRIEF OR SEND ME THE SOLUTION PLZ INEED IT VERY MUCH.

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WAITING 4 ALL OF U

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a) not exactly the right forum.
b) don't capitalize. It hurts the eye and is obsolete since 1874 or so when Remington brought the Remington No 2 to the market which implemented a "shift" key.
c) you don't really need it, you might want it because it looks more beautiful (which is somewhat contradictory to using all CAPITALS)
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Now to the solution. There are multiple. I will describe an easy one:

On every PC edit the "etc/hosts" file (this actually exists on Windows machines as well). It is located under:

%windir\system32\drivers\etc

You will find a few files with the extension ".sam". Those are the examples. Copy hosts.sam to hosts. IMPORTANT: make sure that it really does not have an extension. Windows tends to hide it nowadays.

Then edit the hosts file with an editor like "notepad". Put a line:

192.168.1.1    www.mynet.home        www

into the host file. Save it. On that single PC you can now address the server using
http://www.mynet.home/
or
http://www/

Repeat for all 10 PCs. The DNS solution is probably a bit hard to describe in a short forum post and it depends on the DNS server software used as well and it depends on the client PCs, whether or not they use this DNS server at all. So DNS based requires some more details from your side first.

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