windows 7 issues with local domain name
- by Phill
Until recently my operating system was XP where for the
purpose of development and testing of php and zen cart I set up xampp that included
apache http server and mercury mail server I also made changes to
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts
as follows:
127.0.0.1 www.zen.com # For browser access
127.0.0.1 mail.mercury.com # For email access
127.0.0.1 mercury.com # For mercury mail
server
This allowed the use of www.zen.com in the address bar of my browser
rather than 'localhost' and mail.mercury.com to access email via thunderbird. All was well.
Then I installed windows7, I made all the mods and again everything
appeared to run as expected.Then I turned off my wireless modem
causing all working local connections to fail. Localhost in
the address bar still works but not www.zen.com and thunderbird
'cannot find mail.mercury.com'
Is there some way to overcome what ever is causing this.
