> 2. Set up a line saying > "127.0.0.1 simpaticus.localdomain simpaticus" in /etc/hosts.
This is a big no go! Be sure you have a line in /etc/hosts looking as:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
I do have that line. I *added* the other line showing the simpaticus.localdomain name.
Does the main server work? If it does the vhost configuration and where you defined it would helpful for detecting the error. Is /home/rpaiz set to chmod 711?
My mistake there... /home/rpaiz was not executable, and when checking permissions I forgot that one. Rather than opening up the directory even a little, moved the vhost to the /var/www/ subdirectory. So now I have:
* Default vhost: "localhost" at /var/www/html/ * Other vhost: "simpaticus" at /var/www/www.simpaticus.com/
Still no joy. Really contemplating starting from scratch, getting it to work with a hand-written httpd.conf and then retrying. Also, not sure that name recognition is working properly... perhaps when I type "simpaticus" into the URL field in Mozilla it's not telling Apache the right thing?
-- Rodolfo J. Paiz rpaiz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.simpaticus.com
