JohnBs personal blog

So today was my first day at Monochrome and was duly tasked with formatting and reinstalling XP onto my ‘temporary’ (eh Nik?) workstation. There in the problem lies. I was setting up Apache and creating seperate vhost config files - I’d cheerily created my mydomain.conf file in the /conf/vhosts directory as you do, edited the httpd.conf file to include the httpd-vhosts.conf file which i’d edited to wildcard include all *.conf files in the vhosts folder. For almost an hour I struggled trying to get it to work as it simply wouldn’t start. Checking permissions, checking the file name (or so i thought!!!) etc. etc. etc. To save further embarrassment I’ll cut to the moral of the story - there’s a setting in windows ‘Hide file extensions for known file types’ - just make sure you untick it as soon as darn possible - so you don’t end up with files named like mydomain.conf.txt! It’ll have you stumped for hours!