Virtual host help apache 1.3 and freeBSD

I have been trying to get the virtual host working on my server so far When
I type in the browser www.myshaft.com I get "Cannot find server" messagebut
when I type any of the IPs' I get the Apache confimation page too display,
this is all I have configured on my server I f something is missing or
anything additional needed would apprieciate it I have used an Apache,
2-Freebsd books and online manuals tried different example that were shown.

LAN IP : 192.168.3.8 On the server behind firewall
WAN IP : 64.171.131.252 ported to port 80 to the LAN IP

I have FreeBSD 4.9 with Apache 1.3
Server name is Dolemite
Domain name is myshaft.com

register.com has the domain to the IP to the WAN ip above
here is the hosts file:

::1 localhost.myshaft.com localhost
127.0.0.1 localhost.myshaft.com localhost
192.168.3.8 dolemite.myshaft.com dolemite
192.168.3.8 dolemite.myshaft.com.
192.168.3.8 www.myshaft.com

my httpd.conf file is setup as so:

ServerType standalone

ServerName dolemite.myshaft.com

ServerRoot "/usr/local"

Port 80

User www
Group www

DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/data

HostnameLookups on

NameVirtualHost *
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster.RemoveThis@dolemite.myshaft.com
ServerName www.myshaft.com
DocumentRoot /usr/local/www/htdocs
</VirtualHost>

"Russell A. Rivas" <rr1036.DeleteThis@pacbell.net> wrote in message
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 > I have been trying to get the virtual host working on my server so far
When
 > I type in the browser <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.myshaft.com" target="_blank">www.myshaft.com</a> I get "Cannot find server"
messagebut
 > when I type any of the IPs' I get the Apache confimation page too display,
 > this is all I have configured on my server I f something is missing or
 > anything additional needed would apprieciate it I have used an Apache,
 > 2-Freebsd books and online manuals tried different example that were
shown.
 >
 > LAN IP : 192.168.3.8 On the server behind firewall
 > WAN IP : 64.171.131.252 ported to port 80 to the LAN IP

<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.myshaft.com" target="_blank">www.myshaft.com</a> doesn't resolve to an IP on the internet (myshaft.com does),
so you need an A record adding to the DNS for this.

As for on the lan, not sure, your hosts file looks ok. Make sure you aren't
set to use a proxy, else this request will be going out to the proxy, then
failing because the proxy can't find <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.myshaft.com" target="_blank">www.myshaft.com</a>

Richard.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->