Actually, its not that hard to edit the apache config file to do what you want. For example, assuming WinXP, just add something like the following to the end of your httpd.conf file:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName www.sandbox.laptop
    ServerAlias sandbox.laptop
    DocumentRoot "C:/www.sandbox.laptop/htdocs"
    DirectoryIndex index.pl index.html
    ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "C:/www.sandbox.laptop/htdocs/cgi-bin/"
    ScriptAlias /index.pl "C:/www.sandbox.laptop/htdocs/index.pl"    
</VirtualHost>

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And then edit your hosts file (on WinXP its C:/WINDOWS/system32/drivers/etc/hosts) like:

127.0.0.1       localhost www.sandbox.laptop sandbox.laptop

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HTH,

Anne

In reply to Re: Simple command line web server for running cgis. by Anneq
in thread Simple command line web server for running cgis. by EvdB

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