Apache Dynamic IP Virtual Hosting on Windows?

[Brett_Tabke]

Anyone doing virtual hosting under windows on a dynamic ip?

I have everything setup for local mode. It's worked good for years.

->windows hosts file has 50-100 name->fake localhost ips (127.0.0.x)
->apache server adr is set as localhost
->virtual hosts match ips in windows hosts file.

It all works solid from a local stand point. Now comes the fun part of working in a Dynamic ip address. I've messed with it from scratch for almost a day and can't get it to work. Must be something I'm not understanding.

Can anyone doing this, send me their conf file?

[PsychoTekk]

i have my apache installed on my win2k machine, localhost:81
and once had a dns2go account...
you get your dynamic ip allocated by your isp right?
so what exactly is the problem now or did i miss something here?

<added>
k, here's my vhost config (just the very necessary part):

NameVirtualHost *

<VirtualHost *:81>
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:82>
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

both point to the same site, just the ports used to access it differ

[Brett_Tabke]

That's just what I'm doing with dns too via dyndns.org. I've had it for years where clients could grab their reports in a fairly secure environment and via a domain name.

I want this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

Into this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName fred-bettys.com
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName pebbles-bambam.com
</VirtualHost>

How did you have your hosts file set in windows?

[PsychoTekk]

127.0.0.1 localhost
was the only uncommented line
(i have several more now but not related to my apache)

the only thing i could think of is to set
127.0.0.1 fred-bettys.com
127.0.0.1 pebbles-bambam.com
but i'm pretty sure that's what you tried first :(

where exactly does the problem occur?
is it a dns problem for sure or maybe port settings?

i'd like to take a closer look at my .conf files
but i'm already late now

here [psychotekk.de ] is a txt file,
just add the language definitions to ultraedit's wordfile.txt
(makes work much easier, in case you use ultraedit though.. but it's not complete yet)

[Brett_Tabke]

Thanks. I got it figured out. I was trying to be to tricky. My hosts file looks something like:

127.0.0.2 webmasterworld.com
127.0.0.3 www.webmasterworld.com
127.0.0.4 www.searchengineworld.com
etc.

Then I copy in out that hosts file with another one. I call them local vs net. In local mode, I get 100% pure local behavior/emulation of online sites (like the board here) when I want. Instead of the above, I should have been doing:

127.0.0.3 webmasterworld.com
127.0.0.3 www.webmasterworld.com

All the time.