Emergency UNIX and Linux Support

Hi Folks,

I have recently started Apache on my Fedora 11. I placed a working html file in the ServerRoot.
I can wget and telnet from within the localhost and access the index.html.

My telnet to port 80 from another machine works fine but when I try to access the web page through Firefox I get "The connection was reset". Does'nt work through IE either and times out.

The page is fine as I saved it and accessed it through the browser locallly and it worked.

Netstat and access_log dont show that I tried to connect.

Not sure what is broken here... any clues you can give me?

Thanks,
Jack.

Check SELinux, which I think comes enabled on Fedora.

As root:

Code:

# getenforce

If that returns "enforcing" then test to see if it's a problem by running

Code:

# setenforce Permissive

and see if the behavior is any different.

Hey Malcolmpdx!

Thanks for the quick reply but that didnt change the behaviour.

Regards,
Jack

You should also check the firewall. Port 80 is not allowed by default.

Try changing the httpd.conf to listen on a higher number port... a common favorite is 8080.

That wouldn't help, because port 8080 is also closed by default.

The easiest way is to start "System > Administration > Firewall", select "Trusted Services", scroll down to "WWW (HTTP)" and check the checkbox next to it, klick the apply button and you are done.

Don't forget to put selinux back to

Code:

# setenforce Enforcing

afterwards, after you are done.