Apache not visible from external box

[smlefo]

Hi,

 

I have two boxes. My main one is Windows XP, and is connected to the internet. My second box is CentOS 5, and is connected directly to my XP box via a crossover cable. It took some work to get XP and CentOS to talk to each other, but now they are actually communicating.

 

I do NOT want a website posted to the public... I just want to be able to access it from my XP box. My linux boxes IP is 192.168.0.245, and I can successfully PuTTy into it from my XP machine. So I know the connection is good to go.

 

I updated my httpd.conf file with the 192.168.0.245, and have the service up and running. I can connect to httpd locally via "telnet localhost 80" no problem. It works.

 

The problem is I can't connect to it from my XP box. I try http://192.168.0.245 in my browser, but that doesn't work.

 

I've tried all sorts of things... after all that's said and done, I think it must be a firewall issue. Maybe not though. I've tried changing the httpd port to 7000, 8000, etc, and it still doesn't work. I tried disabling SELinux, and it still doesn't work (although maybe I disabled it incorrectly?).

 

Right now I'm running it on port 8000 with no luck. Here is some output that might get people started:

 

Code:

[root@bleedbox /]# ps aux | grep httpd root 2809 0.0 1.8 22808 9168 ? Ss 13:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2811 0.0 1.0 22940 5376 ? S 13:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2812 0.0 1.0 22940 5336 ? S 13:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2813 0.0 0.9 22940 4708 ? S 13:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2814 0.0 0.9 22940 4708 ? S 13:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2815 0.0 0.9 22940 4708 ? S 13:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2816 0.0 0.9 22940 4708 ? S 13:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2817 0.0 0.9 22940 4708 ? S 13:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd apache 2818 0.0 0.9 22940 4708 ? S 13:50 0:00 /usr/sbin/httpd root 3227 0.0 0.1 3880 660 pts/0 R+ 14:31 0:00 grep httpd [root@bleedbox /]# iptables -nL Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) target prot opt source destination Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references) target prot opt source destination ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 ACCEPT icmp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 icmp type 255 ACCEPT esp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 ACCEPT ah -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 224.0.0.251 udp dpt:5353 ACCEPT udp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 udp dpt:631 ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 tcp dpt:631 ACCEPT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state RELATED,ESTABLISHED ACCEPT tcp -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 state NEW tcp dpt:22 REJECT all -- 0.0.0.0/0 0.0.0.0/0 reject-with icmp-host-prohibited [root@bleedbox /]# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:15:FE:55 inet addr:192.168.0.245 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::250:baff:fe15:fe55/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4544 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4710 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:429065 (419.0 KiB) TX bytes:731950 (714.7 KiB) Interrupt:12 Base address:0x2000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:8724 (8.5 KiB) TX bytes:8724 (8.5 KiB)

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

-smlefo

[big2all]

0.first make httpd to listen on port 80 . so change apache port to 80. restart httpd service

 

1. stop iptables on your linux box.

 

do in shell : service iptables stop , if it is redhat box

 

2.ping 192.168.0.254

result should not any have "100% packt lose" message

 

2.from windows xp box - got o dos shell ( cmd) and do

 

telnet 192.168.0.245 80

 

it should respond , if it shows like time out - unable to connect then some problem with network.

 

3.in linux box type netstat -a

 

so paste all of above details ... lets see

 

 

-Rav