netconfig the right way

I'm running slackware 9.1 and when I run netconfig I use the following
settings...

hostname: tiny
domain: computerlab
(just something i made up, all my machines use the same domain)

ip address: DHCP
dhcp hostname: <empty>



I'm running apache as a simple way to help with file sharing but also
to test out html pages and stuff like that. I've uncommented out the
bit of code that allows access to a user's public_html directory.

My questions:

a) how can I make it so I can do something like http://tiny/ or
http://tiny.computerlab/ or something similar? I also want to be able
to use then for when I ftp/telnet to that machine.

b) when I do ip/~username I get redirected to
tiny.computerlab/~testuser/ (changes ip to tiny.computerlab and add
the trailing /) but that can't be found. Is there a way to fix this?

On 17 Nov 2003 17:10:52 -0800, Miguel De Anda <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I'm running slackware 9.1 and when I run netconfig I use the following
> settings...
>
> hostname: tiny
> domain: computerlab
> (just something i made up, all my machines use the same domain)
>
> ip address: DHCP
> dhcp hostname: <empty>
>
>
>
> I'm running apache as a simple way to help with file sharing but also
> to test out html pages and stuff like that. I've uncommented out the
> bit of code that allows access to a user's public_html directory.
>
> My questions:
>
> a) how can I make it so I can do something like http://tiny/ or
> http://tiny.computerlab/ or something similar? I also want to be able
> to use then for when I ftp/telnet to that machine.

The client needs to be able to find such a name using either DNS, or their
hosts file. Even Windows can have a hosts file (hosts.sam is just an
example).

> b) when I do ip/~username I get redirected to
> tiny.computerlab/~testuser/ (changes ip to tiny.computerlab and add
> the trailing /) but that can't be found. Is there a way to fix this?

Apache docs for UseCanonicalName explain why the redirection and how to to
possibly make your incomplete URL work. I do not understand what changes
the /~username to /~testuser though, unless that is something else in your
server config.

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