[Xitami] Subdomain under Win XP Home localhost

[Ayhan Tuncer]

Hi Martin,

My file extensions and hidden + system files are all visible.

It is the first time I see the contents of the drivers/etc folder.

I opened and examined each file in amazement and wonder, and saw they
look like Xitami config files.

I tried to enter the new host names also into the networks file, because
it had the IP No.s accross the names. I wanted to see if the computer
would respond. It didn't. So I changed everything back to its original
state. 

The imhosts.sam looked like a complicated format. I decided not to
interfere with it.

I tried many many different names in the hosts file.  Nothing worked. 

I remvoed the localhost entry - localhost was still accessible. I put it
back in.

I tried everything back at work next day on XP Professional. No problem
at all - hosts file absolutely functional. 

There is something wrong with the laptop's XP Home configuration. It
does not respond to changes in the hosts file. There can be two reasons:

a) It is reading the hosts from somewhere else or
b) it is somehow configured to try the dialup first.

The laptop is new and the XP Home was pre-installed together with Norton
Internet Security. I had to turn its firewall off because I could not
get it to peek out and register+live-update itself. It responded to no
kind of "allow" instruction. The XP firewall is enabled in its place
right now.

"I do not have any users on the laptop yet."
I am just beginning to move my things in. Users or passwords wait until
after everything is installed and working.

I don't want to take up much more of the Xitami group's time and
attention with a problem which is evidently Windows-related.

It would be a big help if you could point me to some basic 
XP admin and account management 
reference or discussion group for non-sysadmins. 

I did try the MSDN but I could not find information because I do not
know what exactly I should be looking for.

Anyway - thanks for all trouble.

Ayhan


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-----Original Message-----
From: xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org
[mailto:xitami-bounces at lists.xitami.org] On Behalf Of Martin Bleisteiner
Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 10:40 AM
To: Xitami Users General Discussion
Subject: RE: [Xitami] Subdomain under Win XP Home localhost

Are you sure you edit the file "hosts" and not "hosts.sam"?
Must always be a single line for each entry.
Maybe when Windows sees the keywords "localhost" or "mycomputername" it
does not look into the hosts file at all. 
You can try to put entries into hosts when you use a name different from
your computer's name:
127.0.0.1  anothername
127.0.0.1  sub.anothername
127.0.0.1  more.anothername

Martin

----- Original Message ---------------

Subject: RE: [Xitami] Subdomain under Win XP Home localhost
   From: "Ayhan Tuncer" <tuncer at dalan.com.tr>
   Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:17:52 +0300
     To: <jamesamc at bellsouth.net>,
         "Xitami Users General Discussion" <xitami at lists.xitami.org>
>Browser did not behave per new information in the hosts file but still
>could access mycomputername and localhost everytime.
>
>Used IP 127.0.0.1 and left localhost in primary position.
>
>Tried and added :
>- subdomain.localhost
>- subdomain.mycomputername
>- subdomain  all by itself without any dots
>
>In both forms:
>- all host names accross IP separated by spaces on same line
>- host name accross IP, each on an individual line
>
>All of them seem to be ignored during browser request.
>
>Almost as if XP takes no notice of the hosts file. 
>


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