404s since changing my VirtualHosts (and IP host file).

[ringd]

Hello!

I am using Apache 1.3 on Win NT and IE 5 browser. I have a local website which I was accessing via 'localhost'.

I modified the httpd.conf to include a new servername called 'davehost' which pointed to the same physical files (docroot) as 'localhost'. All worked fine (even with SSL!).

I modified the .conf a bit more this time so 'davehost' pointed to a totally different docroot. This is the point I started getting the 404s.

Where I need a bit of guidance is in tracing what path Apache is looking at when I browse for either

http://davehost

or

http://localhost

. Obviously, the problem lies in the conf changes I have made and will become obvious when I know what path Apache is looking at but I simply can't figure out what it is.

I have swithed all logging to 'debug' level and also write out a new custom message to a log file with the following format:

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t %a %A %H %q %U %v %V \"%r\" %>s %b" BrokenLinks

but still can't see what path Apache is looking down.

Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can do to debug what Apache is doing (or not doing - if that's the case)?

p.s. I'm running from a binary so would prefer not to amend source files and a re-compile! (I'm too scared!)

Cheers,
Dave.
mailto:dave.ring@barclays.co.uk

 

[siberian]

What errors are showing up in the error log?

 

[siberian]

Also, what is the new document root you set?