Iptables problem with allowing http
Mark Weaver
mdw1982 at mdw1982.com
Tue Mar 15 15:41:35 UTC 2005
Claude Jones wrote:
> Mark Weaver wrote:
>
>> Claude Jones wrote:
>>
>>> Attempts to connect to my ip via http are being refused with a
>>> 'connection refused' - seems like the connection is live, but
>>> attempts to connect are rebuffed. Anyone spot something wrong in the
>>> above?
>>>
>>
>> check and make sure the apache service is running. this is usually the
>> problem when getting this message and you "know" the port is open.
>>
>> /sbin/service httpd restart
>>
> If I put http://localhost in my browser, my lone webpage pops up. It
> wouldn't do this if httpd weren't running, no?
>
that is correct. check in your httpd.conf file to see what IP address
Apache is listening on.
on my web server this part of my config appears thusly (line 132-133):
#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
Listen 80
I've got a static external IP address and the web server sits behind a
firewall/gateway machine so all my virtualhost containers appear like this:
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.4:80>
...
</VirtualHost>
If you're not using VirtualHost containers then your Directory
containers would appear something like this:
<Directory "/var/www/html/some_directory_name">
AllowOverride All
Options ExecCGI # if you intend to use PERL scripts
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Still not able to get to your web host using the IP address? The next
place I'd look is your host file: /etc/hosts
You've probably already, or should have, this entry in there:
# standard localhost entry
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost.localdomain
# try placing this entry in the hosts file as well
# the entry should be your external IP address or the IP address
# you've assigned to your machine with the web service running on it
xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx hostname hostname_alias
# EXAMPLE:
# 192.168.0.10 myhostname myhost
# OR
# 56.236.211.100 claudehome.net claudehome.net
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Mark
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