IPv6 local address in hosts file
- by Dan
I have set up a local domain on my Apache server.
Then I added the following line in my /etc/hosts file
::1 exampledomain.local
After I trying to navigate to it, (I tried Firefox and Chromium) I got a server not found error.
Then I tried ping6 and it worked:
dan@danny:~$ ping6 exampledomain.local
PING exampledomain.local(exampledomain.local) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from exampledomain.local: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.032 ms
If I replace ::1 with 127.0.0.1 in my hosts file, it works fine.
I'm not sure if this is relevant but this is my Virtual Host configuration in Apache2:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAlias exampledomain.local
DocumentRoot /home/dan/sites/exampledomain
<Directory /home/dan/sites/exampledomain>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>
ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/exampledomain-error.log
# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel debug
CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/exampledomain-access.log combined
</VirtualHost>
My question is: How can I make it work with the IPv6 address?
