http://diymacserver.com/forum/ DIYMacServer » Topic: Matching user account name and domain name en Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:12:38 +0000 http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/matching-user-account-name-and-domain-name#post-738 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:01:04 +0000 Richard 738@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ <p>Did you by ny change put myname.com into our /etc/hosts file with the ipaddress of your local computer? Remove that and ou should be fine. </p> http://diymacserver.com/forum/topic/matching-user-account-name-and-domain-name#post-737 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:26:08 +0000 louiscox 737@http://diymacserver.com/forum/ <p>Hi, oppologies if this is in the wrong section. Please let me know, and I will move it.</p> <p>I have a very irritating problem.</p> <p>I created my account username om my Mac ( OSX 10.6.2 ) long before I created my website. If we take it that my user account name happens to be 'myname' and my website happens to be <a href="http://www.myname.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.myname.com</a>. I hadn't noticed it was a problem until the other day. I changed the site base ref to work from <a href="http://myname.com" rel="nofollow">http://myname.com</a> away from <a href="http://www.myname.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.myname.com</a></p> <p>The problem is on my Mac, the address <a href="http://myname.com" rel="nofollow">http://myname.com</a> is referring to the local web server, ie pre installed Apache and library/webserver/documents not the actual web address. If Web server is switched off via the sharing control panels - the address returns a google not found page? which seems very odd. It will also do this from any user account - identical results, so I know the Mac has reserved the name in some way.</p> <p>I dont want to rename my user account. I cant see my own website on my Mac which is very frustrating, as my website root is forcing all traffic to <a href="http://myname.com" rel="nofollow">http://myname.com</a> ( which is what I want of course ) and not <a href="http://www.myname.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.myname.com</a>. I have to use Parallels with a version of Windows to see the site properly.</p> <p>Naturally I continue to search all the archives I can but to no avail - maybe Im looking in the wrong areas.</p> <p>If anyone has any idea I'd be very grateful. </p>