naming computer

With 1.8 I had no trouble with naming my computer something other than localhost.
In 3.0 I can't get [mycomputer] to give anything but a blank page. No error message.

I've tried adding

127.0.0.1 mycomputer
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 sql2

to host
but that doesn't change anything.

I just needed to find a way to differentiate between 2 installs, 1.8 on my laptop, and 3.0 on my desktop, and instead of changing the name of the computer I went into the http.conf used the ServerAdmin admin@localhost and changed it to ServerAdmin php4admin@localhost on the laptop and ServerAdmin php5admin@localhost
Then in my script I can use a switch or if statement to find out by using the variable $_SERVER['SERVER_ADMIN']

This way I can use the same script on either of my computers or basically any install of easyphp that I'm working with. the older versions don't have a password for the mysql but the new one has the password of mysql
if you also use the server http_host variable you can create a script that will work locally or on live servers easily without any modification to the connection settings.

Hope this helps, even though I know it's not the computer name.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 03/28/2009 08:43PM by st017.