how to config 80 port for apache in iptables

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 16:52 +0100, Steve Searle wrote:
> Around 03:28pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled:
> 
> > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 22:18 +0800, Nathan Huang wrote:
> > > Hi guys
> > > who can help me with opening 80 port for apache in iptables, I want to
> > > access my apache server from remote computer,  but I failed in config
> > > iptables with 80 port.
> > 
> > Why don't people just use system-config-firewall? It works perfectly
> > well for 99% of users and you don't need to understand anything about
> > iptables syntax.
> 
> What a strange answer.  Perhaps he's the 1 % who it doesn't work
> perfectly well for.  Perhaps he doesn't trust it.  Perhaps he didn't
> know about it.

Configuring port 80 is so utterly standard that if the OP had tried
s-c-f and it didn't work I'm sure we'd have heard all about it by now.

"He didn't know about it" is of course the most likely answer, so I
don't see why my reply is "strange".

poc