Setting up a toy TCP/IP domain

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Margaret MacDonald

I'm doing some web development with a copy of Apache serving pages on
my dev machine. I'm at the point now where I'd like to move to the
next level by creating a local, toy domain on my lan and dedicating
one of the other machines as a webserver.

If I were running Unix, of course, I'd already know how to do that,
but I don't know how with W2K Workstation, and I haven't found the
online help system at all helpful.

Could someone point me to step-by-step documentation on how to do
this, or possibly describe it for me in detail?

Many thanks!
Margaret
 
what do you mean by 'toy' domain?? and are you talking a windows domain or
just assigning an internet domain name to the machines? and would you want
the web server to be visible to the world?
 
I'm doing some web development with a copy of Apache serving pages on
my dev machine. I'm at the point now where I'd like to move to the
next level by creating a local, toy domain on my lan and dedicating
one of the other machines as a webserver.

If I were running Unix, of course, I'd already know how to do that,
but I don't know how with W2K Workstation, and I haven't found the
online help system at all helpful.

Could someone point me to step-by-step documentation on how to do
this, or possibly describe it for me in detail?
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You're talking a TCP/IP domain and not a Windows domain, so all you
need to do is configure DNS (Or a hosts file), which is extremely
similar to the same process in Unix. Install DNS, add the new domain
(Zone in Microsoft's terms) as a primary standard domain, nter the
appropriate records and point the clien to the DNS.

Jeff
 
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