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hiddenbit
Joined: 20 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:57 pm Post subject: Questions of Allowing External Access to Apache Web Server |
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It should be easy, but it has taken me days without any luck.
I am using RedHat Fedora with tomcat apache 4.1.31. I can access my web server from the machine itself with URL http://localhost.localdomain/.
The problem is: if I go to an external machine and try to access the web server with http://mymachine.com, I get "out of time" error message -- the website is not accessi ble.
I have a us robotics router with firewall rules mapping wan port 80 to the local web server machine port 80.
I tried removing all entries in hosts.allow and hosts.deny, no luck.
What else could be wrong?
Your help will be highly appreciated!!! |
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anderiv
Joined: 27 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 22, 2005 3:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Are you running this webserver on your linode? |
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sweh
Joined: 13 Apr 2004
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| Posted: Wed Nov 23, 2005 12:02 pm Post subject: |
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| If this machine is at home on your DSL or cable connection then it's very very probable that your ISP is blocking incoming port 80 traffic. You'll have to run the web server on a different port. |
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hiddenbit
Joined: 20 Nov 2005
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| Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 12:57 pm Post subject: problem resolved |
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Set to allow access through RedHat linux. Go to Desktop => Security/Authorization (or similar) to open the ports. Not sure which config file this setup is related to.
Thanks for all the replies! |
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