After acquiring a new domain I had to set up the Virtual Host in Apache. I went to httpd.conf and uncommented the Virtual Hosts Include line which includes the conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf file. Then I edited the vhosts file and added the following block:
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| <VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "c:/apache/mydomain"
ServerName mydomain.com
<Directory "c:/apache/mydomain">
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost> |
Then I restarted the Apache service and my new domain worked. My thanks to this post for guidance that lead to the Directory directive included above.
Shadowhand from the Kohana Forums created a post on alternative web servers. His assertion was that there were other options to PHP web developers besides the traditional Apache. I captured some of the options in his posted and listed them here for your and my reference. Feel free to give one of them a try and post a comment to me about which you like and don’t like.
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Not surprisingly, I have a keen interest in web hosting for us little guys. I was digging around on the web today and I happened upon this interview with Casey Forbes who is the co-founder and lead developer for Ravelry. Ravelry is an on-line site, community, etc for the knit and crochet community. The interview and the site are relevant to me for two reasons.
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