Lighttpd

You need a dns server to resolve the hostname to your IP for every computer in your network, or just edit /etc/hosts and insert a line "ip hostname". ip = your lighttpd working IP, hostname = the hostname you want (e.g. 127.0.0.1 imaserver.lan)

Hey,

Thank you for your reply.

I have added the hostname in /etc/hosts as:

192.168.1.249 localhost.localdomain mynewhost.com localhost4

This make the webpages accessible by url: http://mynewhost.com/index.html from ONLY my machine.

However, when I try to access the webpages from other machines, using the same URL, I am not able to access the pages.

Do you have any idea whats going wrong?

Thanks.

mliya wrote:

Hey,

Thank you for your reply.

I have added the hostname in /etc/hosts as:

192.168.1.249 localhost.localdomain mynewhost.com localhost4

This make the webpages accessible by url: http://mynewhost.com/index.html from ONLY my machine.

However, when I try to access the webpages from other machines, using the same URL, I am not able to access the pages.

Do you have any idea whats going wrong?

Thanks.

As I said, you need a dns server to resolve this hostname in your network. However, you can use the same solution to all machines of your network (I talk about /etc/hosts).

I am not sure, if I want to manually configure the DNS server to resolve this hostname, probably I need edit /etc/resolv.conf file.

However, I don't know how should I put the entries in another machine so that it resolves my custom hostname.

Can you show me some sample setting which I should write in another machine on the same network?

Thanks.

dnsmasq might be handy - read the docs/howtos. This has nothing to with lighty tho.