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I am running an apache2 webserver from my computer and when I access the site from my computer,
it works just fine, but when I try to access it from another machine(that runs windows), the browser outputs, that the site can't be reached.
Here is my site config file:
<VirtualHost 192.168.1.96>
# The ServerName directive sets the request scheme, hostname and port that
# the server uses to identify itself. This is used when creating
# redirection URLs. In the context of virtual hosts, the ServerName
# specifies what hostname must appear in the request's Host: header to
# match this virtual host. For the default virtual host (this file) this
# value is not decisive as it is used as a last resort host regardless.
# However, you must set it for any further virtual host explicitly.
#ServerName www.example.com
ServerAdmin webmaster#localhost
DocumentRoot /var/www/example
ServerName www.example.com
# Available loglevels: trace8, ..., trace1, debug, info, notice, warn,
# error, crit, alert, emerg.
# It is also possible to configure the loglevel for particular
# modules, e.g.
#LogLevel info ssl:warn
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined
# For most configuration files from conf-available/, which are
# enabled or disabled at a global level, it is possible to
# include a line for only one particular virtual host. For example the
# following line enables the CGI configuration for this host only
# after it has been globally disabled with "a2disconf".
#Include conf-available/serve-cgi-bin.conf
</VirtualHost>
Here is my /etc/hosts file
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 puter
127.0.1.1 noreply.com
192.168.1.96 www.vk1.com
# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1 ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
I have tried restarting apache and disabling and enabling the site, but that didn't work.
Has anyone encountered such problems before?

Answer 1

The /etc/hosts file provides host to IP address mappings for the computer it lives on.
Your Windows computer is not going to read the data from your Linux computer's /etc/hosts file in order to know that it needs to make requests to 192.168.1.96 when it is asked to make a request to www.vk1.com.
You need to either:
Configure that mapping in the DNS server for your LAN
Put that information in the hosts file on the Windows computer