Web Sharing on Local Network

I am trying to have my students share their pages on the school network in our classroom. It has worked in the past, however now when they turn on web sharing in the system preferences, the address is the local host instead of the IP address.
How can we fix this?
I tested it on my Macbook with the same result- local host when plugged in at school, my IP address comes up on my LAN at home.
We're running 10.6 on iMacs. iWeb '09.
Thanks in advance!

Heya,
You need to configure your virtual host file to have http://localhost/ point to the coinciding folder that the website is stored at. Web sharing is really meant to be used for local testing of server side scripts before they're launched on a live site, not hosting of static html pages. Although Web Sharing can be used for static pages as well, but you'd have to configure your virtual server regardless so that http://localhost, http://IP-Address, http://student-1-local-site, http://student-2-local-site (or whatever you set in the configuration) points to the directory where your site(s) are stored.
That a look at this page www.DwFAQ.info/home.php?id=18 and read section #3 which explains how to configure your virtual hosts.
HTH

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