A timeout suggests FW. I know you checked this.... but check the FW logs for dropped connections.
No dropped connections regarding this. I first turned off, then uninstalled the firewall and nothing changed. I tried with Zone Alarm, Kerio and Comodo. I'm always getting the same behaviour, even with FW completely disabled. A FW problem wouldn't also explain why rebooting the machine I can gain access to the server even if just for a single time.
I assume you *do* have something like "Listen 80"? BTW, I hope you don't have "Listen 127.0.0.1" - once you list even one address in a Listen, that is the *only* address that gets listened to and all others are ignored.
From my httpd.conf:
# Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or # ports, instead of the default. See also the <VirtualHost> # directive. # # Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to # prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses (0.0.0.0) # #Listen 12.34.56.78:80 Listen 80 As you can see, this is not the problem. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx