How to set up an Apache server on my own machine?

well i'll tell u what i do to run my webserver, and i have a dynamic ip(it don't change unless i reset my modem though),

i got uniserver, which is mysql and apache, all u gotta do is set it up, which isn't hard, then 2 add ur sites u have 2 edit the httd.conf file 2 set up ur virtual hosts, and all that stuff

and for my dns i uses freedns.afraid(.)org

with the domain host all u do is set up there nameservers which is like ns1.afraid(.)org-ns5.afraid(.)org, and point them towards ur ip.

best thing is, its all free, well of course the domain, but u can get thoughs 4 free also, and u can host multiple sites with it aswell

regards,

ThEsToNeMaN

Wouldn't it be simple enough to cname www to the dyndns name?

Edit the zonefile for the domain you own and add;

www IN CNAME <hostname>.dyndns.net. (Important to remember the trailing dot)

Then any request to www.yourdomain.com will automatically go to the dyndns name.

I did then when I was running a webserver behind my firewall at home; forwarded the ports through to the backend server and used one of those dynamic DNS servers to ensure I always had the right IP resolution.

Or am I missing something?

Apache: Seting up virtual servers on my local machine for access from other computers in my LAN

I am running Apache 2.2 on XP. I want to set up Apache so that I have different test sites (each listening on a different port), to be accessed by other machines on my internal (home network).

I have managed to setup different virtual hosts (all using port 80), I have then used the host file to provide server names like:

127.0.0.1 localhost 127.0.0.1 test.php.localhost 127.0.0.1 phpmyadmin.localhost

etc

This works fine on my local machine, in that I can acces http://phpmyadmin.localhost/ (for example, on my local machine. However, when I go to another machine I cannot type http://phpmyadmin.localhost/ I can only type http://[server.ip.address] which in this case, gives me the first website listed in my httpd.conf file.

I have two (possibly related) questions

1. What do I need to do so that I can access http://phpmyadmin.localhost/ from another machine in the LAN (is it simply a case of modifying the host file on each machine, or is it more complicated?)
2. How do I access a SPECIFIC website (on my local server), from one of the machines in my network, instead of being automatically assigned to the first wite listed in httpd.conf?

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