Don't really know which forum to use, but here it is. I tried posting at apachefreaks.com but with their layout, its gonna take months before I get a reply.
I followed the tutorial there, but to no avail. Here's my httpd.conf file (not all of it... just the relevant):
But I can't get to it from my browser. I have a feeling that this is not all of what I need to do to host a page on my computer. Has anyone had any luck with this?
are you looking to actually have this available on the internet or just as a dev site that mirrors your live environment? I only ask as I think you may need to add a entry for the site into your hosts file found at somewhere similar to:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\ and is called hosts.
There should be a entry in there for your localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost
I think you might need to add the domain after localhost e.g.
127.0.0.1 localhost yourdomain
and then reboot. I *think* the whole point of the star after NameVirtualHost is that it assumes the domain to be on the local machine unless a specific IP or named host is mentioned. I caveat all this by saying I am no expert and am still figuring these things out for myself, but I have had similar problems and I run WinXP Pro.