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A strange occurrence happened yesterday. I’m still not sure what triggered it but will post about it if and when I find out.
As a regular visitor to some sites (myspace.com as an example) I found that my main development PC couldn’t access some sites using any browser. I tried Firefox, IE [...]

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Multiple Virtual Hosts on Windows XP

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

When testing websites I need to access more than just my standard Windows server at http://localhost.  It’s possible to run more than one server using the Apache Virtual Hosts feature.
Note: I have XAMPP setup on my Windows XP system, which is running Apache 2.2.
I’ll display below how I set up my additional “paytest” virtual [...]

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