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Originally Posted by TheProf
Hello,
Thank you for the two replies. In regards to the firewall, I ran the firewall configuration program and first tried to allow the firewall but specify that I wanted www and ssh to be allowed through, and that SELinux would be disabled. That did not work. I then tried to disable both SELinux and the firewall and now I CAN ssh into the machine no problem from another computer on the network via the machine's IP
All the logs under log/httpd/ show no indication of anything external to the server itself -- I.E. the only entries are for 127.0.0.1 -- nothing else is showing.
This leads to the second point, that perhaps the Apache server is not set up correctly. I do not know how to specify that inbound connections are enabled. The server is a text-based one and all the tools to modify it (webmin, http configuration tool) are all GUI. Can I just edit the file by hand?
Thank you
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Hrm. Well, liquadlight might be correct about external connections disabled by default, but I don't recall seeing that on Fedora systems I've worked with. Apache configuration is an art unto itself...much too complicated for me to go into here. A couple more things to look at:
When you connect to the system locally, you probably get the standard 'welcome, congratulations, you've set up your webserver' page. Try replacing that by adding a simple index.html in /var/www/html - in my setup (Fedora 7), the 'welcome' page is handled by the file /etc/httpd/conf.d/welcome.conf. Basically, it's configured so that if no document is found, it serves the welcome one instead. So if you have an actual index.html, that will be bypassed, and you'll serve that instead.
However, if you're not seeing anything from the external system in the access log, it seems more likely that the request isn't reaching apache at all.
Do you have DNS setup at all on your network, or are you just connecting via IP address?