Mailing List Archive: How can I force a server name header?

How can I force a server name header?

Aug 1, 2023, 6:07 PM

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I'm trying to test a new server located at internal IP 192.168.1.5. The
production server lives at IP 192.168.1.7 on the same network.

How can I force the browser to connect to the correct server? If I try
"http://192.168.1.5" the redirect on the first (alphabetically) virtual
server redirects to the production server.

What I need to be able to do is combine the virtual server id with the
network address so I connect to the same name but on the machine I'm
testing. I think this is the "ServerName" header but I don't know where
I can enter this on Firefox.

Anybody have any experience with this problem?

Thanks in advance.

John
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Re: How can I force a server name header? [ In reply to ]

thumbs at apache

Aug 1, 2023, 9:17 PM

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http://ip/ will always land on the default (first) vhost unless you have
another vhost with ServerName IP set. Just set up an arbitrary hostname to
resolve to 192.168.1.7, then use http://dummyhostname/. Make sure to define
a vhost with that ServerName set as well.

I would encourage you to look at the name-based vhosts docs, too.

On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 9:08?PM John Iliffe <john.iliffe@iliffe.ca> wrote:

> I'm trying to test a new server located at internal IP 192.168.1.5. The
> production server lives at IP 192.168.1.7 on the same network.
>
> How can I force the browser to connect to the correct server? If I try
> "http://192.168.1.5" the redirect on the first (alphabetically) virtual
> server redirects to the production server.
>
> What I need to be able to do is combine the virtual server id with the
> network address so I connect to the same name but on the machine I'm
> testing. I think this is the "ServerName" header but I don't know where
> I can enter this on Firefox.
>
> Anybody have any experience with this problem?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John
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Re: How can I force a server name header? [ In reply to ]

john.iliffe at iliffe

Aug 2, 2023, 11:33 AM

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Thanks Frank. My workstation just crashed; second time since 14 July,
so I won't

be able to get back to this very fast. I'll try it out whenever I can
get back to work

but I do appreciate the feedback.

John

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On Wednesday 02/08/2023 at 12:17 am, Frank Gingras wrote:
>
> http://ip/ will always land on the default (first) vhost unless you
> have another vhost with ServerName IP set. Just set up an arbitrary
> hostname to resolve to 192.168.1.7, then use http://dummyhostname/.
> Make sure to define a vhost with that ServerName set as well.
>
> I would encourage you to look at the name-based vhosts docs, too.
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 9:08?PM John Iliffe <john.iliffe@iliffe.ca>
> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to test a new server located at internal IP 192.168.1.5.
>> The
>> production server lives at IP 192.168.1.7 on the same network.
>>
>> How can I force the browser to connect to the correct server? If I
>> try
>> "http://192.168.1.5" the redirect on the first (alphabetically)
>> virtual
>> server redirects to the production server.
>>
>> What I need to be able to do is combine the virtual server id with the
>> network address so I connect to the same name but on the machine I'm
>> testing. I think this is the "ServerName" header but I don't know
>> where
>> I can enter this on Firefox.
>>
>> Anybody have any experience with this problem?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> John
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>>
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>> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@httpd.apache.org
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