Virtual Hosts, lookupd and loopback address

For days I've been trying to install and configure MySQL, phpMyAdmin and virtual hosts, but I just seem to be digging myself a deeper hole. I decided to focus on virtual hosts first and learned how to modify my httpd.conf, hosts and NetInfo files, only to discover that I also have to modify something called lookupd, which I can't even find.
I posted a rather detail query at http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=4232285#4232285
and received this reply:
[QUOTE]I'm not real sure it applies to virtual domains, but if you want your local machine to redirect URLs to a local domain you need to set up lookupd. . . . As it is, your browser is not even finding Apache because you have no DNS server. As an expedient alternative most people use the loopback address with a custom port number, but you are more demanding than that.[/QUOTE]
Maybe you should repost in the UNIX section and use a better subject line. This is pretty geeky stuff.[/QUOTE]
So is it true that I've been beating my brains out when there's a simpler method involving a loopback address with a custom port number? If so, can someone tell me how to do it or direct me to a tutorial? If, instead, I have to modify this lookupd file, how do I find it? I can't find it with Spotlight, and I haven't been able to locate it with TextWrangler yet.
Thanks!

You should ask this question at http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=735&start=0

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This topic might be a bit advanced for this forum, I'm not sure. But here goes.
I'm trying to set up my laptop to act like a web server so that I can do test development on it. I have two web sites, and have successfully created virtual hosts for each of them.
The part that I'm struggling with now is enabling CGIs, as I want to learn to write CGIs in Perl. I can't seem to find any site that discusses how this is done in Leopard. One said something like "just put the CGIs into /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables and it'll work", but of course, since I've got virtual hosts defined, it seems that anything addressed to "localhost" defaults to the first virtual host and thus there is no way to refer to a CGI placed in that location. Besides which, I'd like to know how to enable CGIs placed in a folder on each of my virtual sites, so that I could test them in place.
Any ideas?

One said something like "just put the CGIs into /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables and it'll work", but of course, since I've got virtual hosts defined, it seems that anything addressed to "localhost" defaults to the first virtual host and thus there is no way to refer to a CGI placed in that location.
That is an incorrect assumption.
By default, Apache is configured to recognize any URI that begins with /cgi-bin and serve that request via a CGI script in /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables
This is true even though each site's DocumentRoot is set somewhere else on the file system (that's by design since it makes it harder for a remote attacker to affect your CGIs)
Since it does not matter which site the request was on, any /cgi-bin request would be served from there, so:
http://www.domain1.com/cgi-bin/some.cgi
http://www.domains2.net/cgi-bin/other.cgi
would both be served from /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables even though they are for two different virtual hosts.
Now, of course, if you want each site to be separate and have its own set of CGIs (maybe some.cgi for domain1 does something different from some.cgi on domain2) then this approach causes problems. For this you will need to edit each site to have its own cgi-bin directory.
Unfortunately (although I haven't tested it) I think Matt's solution won't work because Apache is going to catch all /cgi-bin/ requests and serve them from /Library/WebServer/CGI-Executables, never getting to the cgi-bin directory within each site's documentroot.
To set site-specific CGI directories you need to add a ScriptAlias command to each site's .conf, such as:
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /path/to/site/cgi-bin/
This tells apache that any request for /cgi-bin/* should be served from /path/to/site/cgi-bin
Ideally the path should be outside of the site's normal document root, but it can be inside if you really want.

Virtual Host Addressing in Oracle9iAS

Hi,
We have Oracle9iAS 9.0.2.3 installed on Windows-2000 (SP-4) OS. Both the Instances of Oracle9iAS i.e INFRA & Mid-Tier is installed on the same machine. Our applications developed in Forms/Reports9i is deployed successfully on Mid-Tier and working OK over web with URL:: http://<Host IP>:7779/<app_name>/myprog.html
[HTTP server running on Port 7779, <app_name> is application delployed in our OC4J Instance & myprog.html is first page which opens by above URL is kept in its relevant directory of deployed application]
Now, i want to create a Virtual Host Address for my application that is running by HTTP Server in Mid-Tier Instance so that above URL could be avoided and intutive name can be given for the URL. I do not wish to give IP, Port etc. in URL for opening my applicaiton deployed on Mid-Tier. I wish to open like IGFL.XEXP.COM (The relevant DNS entry is already placed in Main Domain Controller machine, which will redirect to this HOST).
I checked the documents on Metalink and followed the DocID: Note: 231351.1. I followed the steps of configuraiton without webcache setup, but this is not working properly and i am unable to trace it...Why so.?? Here, i am specifying my customized document root directory instead of AS default directory.
Can anyone give me steps how to do it or help me identifying what i am missing. People claim that it works, but i do not hv any idea and doing it for the first time. You help is needed....Expecting your response.
Regards,
Kamesh Rastogi
Indo Gulf - Jagdishpur

Sounds like you just want the URL to not have the port listed? If so, just change the listen port in the httpd.conf file or change it in Web Cache (if you are using Web Cache).
Plus, you need to register a DNS entry in your DNS server to map the IP address to a name. You don't need to do anything in 9iAS for this part.

Virtual Hosts, lookupd and loopback address

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