HTTP Bad Request 400 - apache on Fedora 8

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Jan 7 00:49:32 UTC 2008


Bob Hartung wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I get the above error when (all machines on same private network):
>         I try to access the server from the remote client by ip address; 
> e.g.  http://xxx.xxx.xx.xx.
>         With an entry into the client host file I can access the server 
> with http://rwheserv1 without any problem.
> 
>   On the server, I can http://localhost okay but cannot http://127.0.0.1
> 
>   I changed httpd.conf to include:
>     NameServer xxx.xxx.xx.xx
>     UseCanonicalName On
> 
>   All firewalls have been turned off.
> 
>   The result is the same.  It is pretty obvious I am missing one point 
> but darned if I can find the directive that I have failed to set.
> 
> Any suggestions appreciated.
> 
> Bob
> 

The standard configuration works for me.
links http://127.0.0.1/
sudo service httpd start
links http://127.0.0.1/
links http://localhost/
[summer at potoroo ~]$

the first got connection refused; not surprising as I've not used that 
webserver.
The last two links commands both produced the expected page.

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John

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