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More info?)
Ace,
Thanks for your reply--it is helpful and helped define what actually belongs
in the realm of dns. I believe I am all set now.
"Ace Fekay [MVP]"
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> In news:eHYNR7qlEHA.1008@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl,
> Joel <jwolfe(removethis)@digimarc.com> made a post then I commented below
> > I've got 2 win2k3 servers both running apache tomcat web server. I
> > can't figure out if this is a dns issue or not.
> >
> > I have a problem with one of the servers. When I type in
> > "localhost/webpage" in the url box of IE I get the correct home web
> > page. If I try any other of the following, I only get a blank page:
> >
> > 127.0.0.1/webpage
> > servername/webpage
> > serveripaddress/webpage
> >
> > Any ideas? Thanks, Joel
>
> It depends on the hostheaders, if using them, or if you are using IPs
> instead of "all unassigned" (which I'm not sure how APache handles that).
> Can you elaborate on the site's configuration?
>
> This is more of a webserver config question, and not necessarily DNS,
since
> the examples you stated are not necessarily DNS related. Now if you
stated:
> http://servername.domain.com/webpage, then that would be a DNS lookup.
Using
> just 'servername', the system will try to resolve it by suffixing the
search
> suffix, that is if the machine name itself is not that name or that if not
> in DNS, it will broadcast out for it. Once again, not sure how Apache
> handles that sort of thing. I know IIS does it that way. 127.0.0.1 may
need
> to be allowed in Apache, along with the other names.
>
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> Ace
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