On 11/17/08, Paul Doubek <pdoubek@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Well... thanks for the input... it was the firewall after all. I had used > the GUI to "disable" it but it must have still been running. I edited the > /etc/sysconfig/iptables files per another article I found and bounced the > server... still didn't work. I finally went back into the GUI Firewall admin > tool, enabled the firewall, and told it to pass traffic for ports 80 and > 443. Now I can hit the web server from both the SuSE and WinXP boxes. I > guess it won't hurt to have a firewall on this machine, but since it's only > a development server and it's sitting behind my Internet firewall I intended > to get the Fedora firewall out of the way. > > Thanks again, Morgan, for the advice. > > Paul Doubek > > Paul Doubek wrote: > > > Morgan, thanks for the quick reply... see below: > > > > Morgan Gangwere wrote: > > > > > Paul Doubek wrote: > > > > > > > -Telnet from either box to Fedora's port 80 fails (SuSE: "No route to > host", WinXP: Connect failed"), but telnet to Fedora's port 22 succeeds. > > > > > > > > > I've looked in all the log files in /var/log/httpd. The only time I see > any activity in those log files is if I access the Fedora web server from > the Fedora machine (locally). It acts as if Apache is never seeing the > traffic from the other two machines, but it appears to me that the OS is > seeing the requests. That's what let me to look for (and find) the Fedora > firewall running. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -Disabled the Fedora firewall as it was enabled when the build was > complete. > > > > -Have changed /var/www/html and all it's contents to be owned by > user/group apache/apache, all have 755 permissions. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Try going from the Fedora box to the SuSE box. If that works, routing is > working one way. Make sure everything is in place and you //may// just find > your problem. > > > > > > > I will work that direction a little more. I actually hoped that in the act > of trying to describe the problem the solution would come to me, as seems to > happen quite often. I agree... it behaves like a routing problem except I > can ping and TN both directions... so it seems like it's got to be a > Transport or Session layer thing. I've been looking for some clue that would > indicate either httpd or the OS is trapping or rejecting the packets but I'm > striking out. > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > glad to hear. i was going to suggest packet sniffing on the fedora box -- Morgan gangwere "Space does not reflect society, it expresses it." -- Castells, M., Space of Flows, Space of Places: Materials for a Theory of Urbanism in the Information Age, in The Cybercities Reader, S. Graham, Editor. 2004, Routledge: London. p. 82-93. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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