[X-Unix] URL remapped to .local address

[Kevin Stevens]

On May 5, 2004, at 07:24, Stephen Jonke wrote:

>
> On May 4, 2004, at 3:59 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote:
>> It's not the port mapping, it's a hostname issue.  I was able to  
>> override
>> it by forcing the host name in the httpd.conf file, but that's an ugly
>> workaround.
>
> Ugly, but can you explain what I need to do to do this ugly fix? I'll  
> take ugly until there's a real fix.
>
> Looking through httpd.conf... do I set the ServerName to  
> "mydomain.com" ?

Yes, that's the most recent change I made, and it seems to be working  
so far.  Note that I'm not a web guy, I only ever even run Apache to  
share the occasional file/picture.  A month ago I edited ServerName  
(/etc/httpd/httpd.conf) to the FQDN, in my case www.pursued-with.net.   
My machine knows that is one of its aliases because it is running DNS  
for pursued-with.net, if you aren't doing that your results may vary.   
I'm uncertain if that truly fixed the problem because it's so  
inconsistent, but so far, so good.  I should *really* be using virtual  
domains, since I also own kevinstevens.info at the same address, but as  
I say I don't run a serious web server.

Note that hardcoding the server name into every freaking application  
(mail, mysql, openssl) is a PITA, and I'd really like to resolve the  
underlying problem.  For the person asking that this be opened as a bug  
report, I haven't done that for the same reason - I don't have a  
reproducible event sequence that causes the hostname to change.  Below  
are some note/links I've accumulated on the issue:

One Apple definition of hostname:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html? 
artnum=107868&sessionID=anonymous|883669&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com%3a8 
0%2f

A different Apple definition of hostname:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html? 
artnum=25356&sessionID=anonymous|883669&kbhost=kbase.info.apple.com%3a80 
%2f

Using ncutil to change hostnames:
http://discussions.info.apple.com/WebX?13@209.ct7kaS1NlPB.2@.6891cf00/0

Instance report of 10.3 multiple hostname entries (my G5 has done this  
on occasion):
http://www.lam-mpi.org/MailArchives/lam/msg07094.php

Older comments about setting hostname in hostconfig (but note different  
interpretations of hostname by Apple in first links):
http://www.geektimes.com/macintosh/os/x/10_0/core/hostname.html
http://www.osxfaq.com/tips/dokushoka/index.ws

Changing initial hostname in rc.boot (I DON'T recommend this, it is an  
ugly hack and won't prevent it from being changed dynamically later  
anyway):
http://www.macobserver.com/comments/commentindivdisplay.shtml?id=12935

> Or do I just put in "mydomain"? What about the port mapping? How does  
> that effect what I set ServerName to? Do I need to include the  
> external (outside the airport base station) port: "mydomain.com:1234"  
> ?

No, the base station should be port translating that for you, so what  
the computer sees is a request on the standard port.  I don't have an  
Airport station (use third party), so I have a question.  In your  
initial message you say "port mapping of port 1234 to port 80 on  
mylocalmachine".  Isn't this port translation actually done by IP  
address, not name?  If not, it should be.  I've never seen a device  
that does name-based translation, probably for good reason.  ;)

KeS