hi all,
I can't get my index.html to display on the web browser. Please point it out the reason.

this is what i had done so far:
1. I have registered a dns name pointing to my public ip (it is done automatic)
2. my server name is set same as the dns name
3. I have configured httpd.conf like this
ServerName http://xsoldier2006.dnsdojo.org // my dns name
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html" // i place my index.html in /var/www/html
DirectoryIndex index.html index.html.var
HostnameLookups off
4. I have my index.html in the /var/www/html folder

what else should i do? did i miss a step? why it is not on the browser? thanks

What operating system? What does your apache error log say?

The ServerName option does not take 'http://'. Just the hostname of the machine. Generally output from Make sure your /etc/hosts file matches what you put here.

Also, does your ISP block port 80? You can check at Open Port Check Tool .

hi, glen.barber . I am using fedora9. and error_log has this:
"error_log" 7L, 745C
[Fri Oct 24 13:24:51 2008] [notice] SELinux policy enabled; httpd running as context unconfined_u:system_r:httpd_t:s0
[Fri Oct 24 13:24:51 2008] [notice] suEXEC mechanism enabled (wrapper: /usr/sbin/suexec)
[Fri Oct 24 13:24:51 2008] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Fri Oct 24 13:24:51 2008] [notice] Digest: done
[Fri Oct 24 13:24:51 2008] [notice] mod_python: Creating 4 session mutexes based on 256 max processes and 0 max threads.
[Fri Oct 24 13:24:51 2008] [notice] mod_python: using mutex_directory /tmp
[Fri Oct 24 13:24:51 2008] [notice] Apache/2.2.9 (Unix) DAV/2 PHP/5.2.6 mod_python/3.3.1 Python/2.5.1 mod_ssl/2.2.9 OpenSSL/0.9.8g mod_perl/2.0.3 Perl/v5.10.0 configured -- resuming normal operations

should i disable seLinux??

this is the message generated from Open Port Check Tool
Error: I could not see your service on port (80)
Reason: Connection timed out

so that means port 80 is blocked by my ISP? ..... i'll look into noip.com

Any more suggestion? thanks a lot for the input.

First look if your server is listening to port 80
If your server is placed behind a router/firewall: is port 80 forwarded (destination-NAT) to port 80 on your server?

Run tcpdump on your server to see if any connection is made
While running tcpdump try to make a connection from the internet to your webserver. If there is no output, the webserver is not reachable from the internet caused by portblocking, port-80 not being forwarded or something like that.

If you're in front of the machine, open 127.0.0.1 in your browser. If apache is not running, you will get an error. If you're on the same LAN, open the host's IP in a local client's browser.

This should not be necessary.
No-ip won't help you with port 80 being blocked. At best, you can have apache listen on an alternate port.

Regards.

K2k,

Just to isolate the issue please disable the selinux for the meantime.
If your httpd is running the port 80 is open or any port you configure at your web server.

I don't believe SeLinux to be the problem here. I think he's trying to access his site using his registered domain name, and because port 80 is blocked by his ISP, it is not connecting.

This is why I want him to try to access the page from inside his LAN if possible.