THANKS MRX i did the same but the problem persists...when i uses it on a single pc it works fine but when i connects my pc with local interanet it goes on finding & finding...i am using ISA server at my main server maching with Ip 192.168.0.1 & on ip 192.168.0.2 i want to make my own virtual host but it seems workless...all my efforts are vain to do so..i had read the related apache config pages & somehow uniformserver pages too but nothing could solve this problem..please help me how to do so....how to edit my hosts file what ip i'll have to give over there for my localhost or any server name i choose...