[Xitami] Running Xitami locally

[Ewen McNeill]

In message <5ier2uotu7qa5nfdo7vlj2b2hb2fqj2dmn@4ax.com>, Jon Hinchliffe writes:
>On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 23:54:03 +1300, Ewen McNeill <ewen@imatix.com> wrote:
>>In message <h97r2u4n41i5puutnlc1k4ce7iemq24gnn@4ax.com>, Jon Hinchliffe writes:
>>127.0.0._2_?  That's a fairly unusual address to be using.
>
>Well I only use Xitami for testing things offline. I have two websites ie
>Domain names so I set up one on
>
>127.0.0.2 praying.cfg

Well, if it works for you, by all means keep doing so.  Typically only
127.0.0.1 is actually supported as a loop back interface.  And
name-based virtual hosting (rather than IP address based virtual
hosting) is often the way people use to test multiple sites on a single
IP address.

>I solved my problem thanks to your help anyway. Once I turned of the
>(un)helpful messages I got  [useful error message]

:-)  The "friendly" error messages are one of the more annoying features
of IE.  It's a shame they didn't put the friendly message at the top and
then some sort of "technical section" at the bottom of the page with the
real details in it.  This way anyone developing websites/setting up
webservers/whatever has to remember to turn off the "hide error
messages" option (under its other name).

Ewen

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Ewen McNeill, Technical Consultant, iMatix Corporation  www.imatix.com