On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 18:47 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 05:20pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: > > > 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". > > Becasue it wasn't asnwering what he asked. Letting him know alternative > methods is fine, but I don't believe that implying that editing iptables > is the wrong way is good advice. The old teach a man to fish... It was actually more a general comment than a specific answer, since I've noticed a lot of questions about iptables here and virtually no mention of s-c-f. > However on reflection my reply was a bit snippy. Apologies. No problem. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
