| From: ac via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | On Fri, 1 May 2020 11:33:53 -0400 (EDT) | "D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk" <talk@gtalug.org> wrote: | > I'm a bit confused. But I'm probably not the only one. | > Note: I've never set up a virtual host so I could be way off-base. | > | this entire thread is confusing. it was about something unclear to | start with | and now it is simply just becoming noise. Sorry, Stephen asked for help. Something was confused or it all would have worked for him. I was trying to help reduce that confusion. Why do you consider this noise? | i mean could the op not configure apache properly? did the op not | register a domain name? is the op's /etc/hosts file being ignored due | to "browser" control of dns? Ask him. Not me. I'm trying to ask questions to clarify. | > By default, I've heard that Firefox has switched to using DNS over | > HTTPS. If your browsers have done so, they might well be ignoring | > /etc/hosts. | > | this is interesting... imnsho, life is all about balance. Not in this case. It's about how his resolvers are working or not working or not working as he expects. | > | Entering my local IP in a browser gets me to Gerbera's control | > panel. | > | > Now we know that you're running Gerbera on your server. | > | > I don't know how Apache picked Gerbera as the default. But you | > probably don't care anyway. Or maybe you should change the server's | > setup so it defaults into something innocuous. | | it also tells us, on a balance of probability, that the problem is | probably not routing/port related but Apache that does not know what it | has to serve... - so either non registered domain or /etc/hosts So say so to him, not me. And in a way that he's likely to understand and even act upon. Maybe he's already figured it out his problem but he hasn't told us.