xampp and joomla installation problem on intranet

[hobbel]

i've set up xammp and joomla on a virtual server, the site's name is work.online.
I can acces the site on the virtual server through ip adress and trough http://work.online/.
in folder windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts i've added : 127.0.0.1 work.online
in httpd-vhosts.conf under apache/config/extra/ i've added this:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
DocumentRoot d:/Xampp/xampp/htdocs/
ServerName localhost
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost work.online>
DocumentRoot "d:\xampp\xampp\htdocs\joomla16"
ServerName work.online

<Directory "d:\xampp\xampp\htdocs\joomla16">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

but when i connect from another pc in the office i can only connect through the ipadress 172.16.186.118 to the website.
if i enter http://work.online/ it shows up that's forbidden to access this page.

is this a port problem or is there something i must change on the virtual server ( running w2003)?
i've heard changing it to port 8080 can make it work , but i don't know if this is going to work? and wich files i've to change?
is there a simple solution?
the site must only work on the intranet , internal cms.
i will create a copy later that will run from cd for outside users who work for the company, but all must be CMS


i hope some can help me,

thanks and the best wishes

[Sharley]

It seems you may be mixing things up a bit - Name based and IP based VirtualHosts without telling Apache that this is what you want to do.

Try this and maybe you don't need to mix things.

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NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/xampp/htdocs"
</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "D:/xampp/xampp/htdocs/joomla16"
ServerName work.online

<Directory "D:/xampp/xampp/htdocs/joomla16">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Apache is case sensitive so make sure that folder names are correct - I changed them to lower case but you would need to change them to how they really are.

The HOSTS file remains the same and the first 2 lines may look like this

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127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.0.1 work.online

On your network you may need to tell each PC that work.online equates to the IP address of your virtual server machine - so they can type http://work.online instead of 172.16.186.118 - HOSTS file in each PC on the network perhaps may need an edit:

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172.16.186.118 work.online

Best wishes.

[hobbel]

i sincerly hope that i'll not have to tell on every pc that the ipadress resolves to http://work.online/

We are an international company, with more then 3000 people.
and the it guys are based in germany and singapore.

so is there no other way???

[Altrea]

You should find out if your company runs their own DNS-Server.

[hobbel]

if they do, they have to make adjustments?
because we have another site on our company with another vitrual server, and this one uses port 8080
and this one works.

[hobbel]

is there anybody who can help me?

[WilliL]

see answer of Altrea
discribe your Problem, show this thread.