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I have a static ip for my location, but most of the "virtual servers" do not have registered domain names at this point so I can not access from outside my local network.
My question, is there a way when I am wanting to access from elsewhere that I can pass the virtual domain name along with the ip address? I have a virtual domain set up as "thj" on this inhouse server. It is a site I am developing and as yet do not have a registered domain name for it. In house, I add "192.168.1.8 thj" to my hosts file and I get to it with "http://thj" ( actually, just thj) and it works fine. I can also change the hosts file replacing the "192.168.1.8" with my static ip for my DSL account and I can get to it that way as well. I have gone to a neighbors and added the entry to their hosts file, and that works. Is there a way to simply go to http:// (my statis ip) and pass it the virtual name so that it finds the right virtual server? I have tried tacking "~thj" onto the ip address, but that does not work. Going to the ip address loads my default server, and that is not what I want.
I hope this makes sense, and that someone knows how to do this.
Thanks for your time in reading this.
Steven
Jim
Thanks! I have a number of domains that I can use a subdomain of to handle this. Sometimes...
Out of curiosity though, what are some of the ways to access by ip address only?
Thanks again...
Steven
The others are even less attractive...
Jim
