HELP! OWAS 3.01 NT - valid virtual host error

When a web browser on another machine tries to access my OWAS 3.01 site on an NT 4.0 SP3 workstation, I get the following error message:

   Unable to open http://<sitename>. The site reported an invalid    request.

   The request did not specify a valid virtual host.

The wierd thing is that when I access the site using a browser that is on the same machine as OWAS, everything works perfectly.

There is no problem pinging my sitename on the network and I get the same error message whether I use the direct IP address or the actual sitename.

Also this is not a PLSQL / cartridge type of problem because this problem just occurs when accessing static HTML.

The OWAS is setup with the default security settings that were defaulted during installation of OWAS and as far as I can tell there is no default security setting that might be causing my problem.

When this problem occurs no messages are put into the "svwww.err" file or the default "xlf.log" file.

Any suggestions anybody?

I can't find any help in the Oracle documentaion that deals with such an error.

From memory, I thought I had seen some debugging tip where you could use telnet to the http deamon at port 80 and possibly do some debugging that way? If I did this from another machine on the network perhaps I could get a better idea of where the problem lies.

One other thing has anybody got any success/horror stories with trying to use OWAS 3.01 under NT? Any opinions on the Oracle (Spyglass) web listener, or are people have great success with using the Microsoft, Netscape or Apache servers?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Received on Thu Aug 13 1998 - 13:03:37 CDT