Topic: WAMP - Windows 2008 R2 Server - Domain Name not working

[smussani]

Hi,
I have installed WAMP 2.1 on my virtual Windows 2008 R2 machine hosted by myhosting.com. I have a web site installed on this server that works fine when I visit using my server's IP address. E.g.
http://168.2.2.../mysite

I am trying to add my purchased domain name to Apache and for some reason I cannot make it work.
I added the following lines to my Apache - httpd.conf file:

Listen *:80

ServerName www.mydomainame.com:80

# Tells Apache to identify which site by name
NameVirtualHost *:8080
# Tells Apache to serve the default WAMP Server page to "localhost"
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *.8080>
# The name to respond to
ServerName mydomainame.com
ServerAlias *.mydomainname.com
# Folder where the files live
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www"
# A few helpful settings...
<Directory "C:/wamp/www">
allow from all
order allow,deny
# Enables .htaccess files for this site
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
# Apache will look for these two files, in this order, if no file is specified in the URL
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
</VirtualHost>

I have made sure the Name Servers of my domain are pointing to myhosting.com's name servers

After making the changes and restarting Apache, I can view my site using the IP but not by using my domain name.

I can ping my IP and it works fine. But when I ping my domain name, it comes back with host not found.

Please help..

Thanks
Sajjad

[James Blond]

How do you handle DNS? Did you add that domain name to your DNS server or to your hosts file?

Can you ping the hostname?