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I have a local Apache server running on the network and I've got a number of tester machines. I want to be able to connect to a specific website on the localhost, at the moment it just connects to the first website.
For example: 192.168.1.125/mywebsite.
I've looked around I cannot find the method of conneciton, I know it's something really simple but everywhere I look answers a different problem. (Maybe this is too simple).
So basically I'm asking, how do I access the other servername though the browser. (setup is like so:)
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot c:/vhosts/website1
ServerName website1
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot c:/vhosts/website2
ServerName website2
</VirtualHost>
I've tried
192.168.1.125~mywebsite
192.168.1.125:80/mywebsite.
192.168.1.125-mywebsite.
Can anyone help me here? Also what's the English for this? Namespace? Name-server or something?
*I get the error "Object not found" with these.

Answer 1

Name-based serving of apache is based on the actual hostname in the request. To make this work, you have to be able to reference that IP by any names you need. You have to be able to do http://hostname/ and not http://IP for name-based virtual hosts to work.
You can do this either with a hosts file (for a single host) or over DNS. Neither is a programming problem though.

Answer 2

Use virtual hosts. i.e. have something like this in the httpd.conf file:
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName <make up a hostname here e.g. example.com>
DocumentRoot "<path to the web site files>"
</VirtualHost>
<Directory "<path to the web site files>">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Then add the following to the to the hosts file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc
127.0.0.1 <made up hostname as above>
Then you can access the web site as http://<hostname as above>
Guess it will be the same for Linux except the file would be /etc/hosts. You can repeat this as often as necessary.
EDIT Use the following it /etc/hosts on both the machine running the server and the machine running the browser
192.168.1.125 website2.example.com
192.168.1.125 website1.example.com
Then edit the two copies of the virtual hosts stuff above using the website1.example.com and website2.example.com

Answer 3

Shot in the dark
Map your testing machines to your server
~/test_machines/web_1
~/test_machines/web_2
~/test_machines/web_3
Then add the site entries to your vhost.conf. Use VirtualDocumentRoot from mod_vhost_alias. You can see the examples here: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_vhost_alias.html