Firstly I registered one domain name called vietyoung.org
Secondly, my Internet service provider gave me one static IP address. 123.45.67.89
Thirdly, I gave this IP address to my domain registry company and they points my domain name to this IP address.

Fourly, I installed Apache web server in my personal computer
and I tested this Apache web server installation successfully with the testing page when I type http://localhost/index.htm
However, when I typed in my domain name http://www.vietyoung.org, I got the issue about the page is not found or there is no internet connection.

I checked that my index page is in the right document root folder as shown in localhost.
I checked that my internet connection is fine because I can view yahoo web page.

I try to configure the host file and virtual host file to set my static IP address and domain name. But I cannot view my site under http://www.vietyoung.org

Can you tell me difference between the IP address of my computer or IP address of internet service provider?
Which IP address can be used?

If that does not connect, then I’d check for firewalls on CentOS, check Apache is listening on the right interface not just localhost.

If you _can_ connect, then I’d try and look for errors in Apache logs. Try access just the default ‘It Works’ page etc.

Thanks for the post … curious if you’d be able to help me.

I’ve created a VM of CentOS on my MacBook Pro with the ethernet set to Bridged. So, the VM has it’s own static IP address of 192.168.1.111

Within the “hosts” file on the VM, I’ve got:

127.0.0.1 dev.example.com

Within the “hosts” file on my MacBook Pro (the host machine), I’ve got:

192.168.1.111 dev.example.com

Now the site works fine from within the VM, but doesn’t pull up anything from the host MacBook Pro…

I’ve spent literally 2 days trying to setup this stupid network and I have no idea what the issue is! :X

That needs to match the ServerName in the Apache config, which is .dev. let me know if that was the issue.

Thanks for the writeup.. I’m in the middle of trying to accomplish exactly this.

Here’s my setup:
MBP + MAMP + VirtualHost = My development environment

I want to view the websites I’m currently developing from anywhere on my local network (exactly what this article lays out), but I’m having some trouble here… :-/

This is my vhost file on my development box:

# Created Wed Feb 9 23:13:24 PST 2011
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/jennylynne
ServerName jennylynne.dev

Here’s my /etc/hosts file from my development box:

##
# Host Database
#
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
##

127.0.0.1 jennylynne.dev

Here’s my /etc/hosts file from the computer on the same local network:

192.168.1.156 jennylynne.net


The problem is that I simply get a directory listing of my /Applications/MAMP/htdocs folder when loading up http://jennylynne.dev on my “local network” computer, whereas when i go to the same URL on my dev box, the site loads up fine. any thoughts?

P.S. – I’ve verified the IP address also..

What would I do to connect to a folder on the remote machine, where my virtual host is set up? Can I do that?

Thanks