Web pages access help

I have a red hat 9 system with apache 2.x loaded and a php based photo
album also loaded. I can view and browse my web pages locally, but I
cannot access them from an outside computer. I have the linux machine
hooked up to a windows 2k network and I have good connectivity between
the two computers.
What do I need to set up in the linux box that will allow me to see my
web pages from another computer?? or is there something that needs to
be done in the windows side?? any help would be greatly appreciated.

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> I have a red hat 9 system with apache 2.x loaded and a php based photo
> album also loaded. I can view and browse my web pages locally, but I
> cannot access them from an outside computer. I have the linux machine
> hooked up to a windows 2k network and I have good connectivity between
> the two computers.
> What do I need to set up in the linux box that will allow me to see my
> web pages from another computer?? or is there something that needs to
> be done in the windows side?? any help would be greatly appreciated.

Some questions:
Please define "hooked up to a windows 2k network".
Are you running a firewall/iptables on the Linux system?
When you access your website "locally" are you using http://localhost or
http://some ip address ?
Can your windows machine(s) ping the linux box?

At this point the problem could be almost anything.

Al


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On 3 Nov 2003 13:49:11 -0800,
yvqkck <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> I have a red hat 9 system with apache 2.x loaded and a php based photo
> album also loaded. I can view and browse my web pages locally, but I
> cannot access them from an outside computer. I have the linux machine
> hooked up to a windows 2k network and I have good connectivity between
> the two computers.
> What do I need to set up in the linux box that will allow me to see my
> web pages from another computer?? or is there something that needs to
> be done in the windows side?? any help would be greatly appreciated.

A little more clarification on your part will help us help you.

If you can see your webpage from 2k, and 2k is what connects to the
internet. And you have internet connection sharing enabled in 2k - make
sure that 2k's firewall allows serving on port 80 (unless you changed
the port) and that your ISP permits you to serve on that port. Don't
forget 2k's built in firewall, yes it's laughable but if misconfigured
can cause trouble.

If your linux box is what connects your network to the internet you'll
basically be looking for the same thing on your linux machine.

HTH,

Michael C.
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On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 13:49:11 -0800, yvqkck wrote:

> I have a red hat 9 system with apache 2.x loaded and a php based photo
> album also loaded. I can view and browse my web pages locally, but I
> cannot access them from an outside computer. I have the linux machine
> hooked up to a windows 2k network and I have good connectivity between
> the two computers.
> What do I need to set up in the linux box that will allow me to see my
> web pages from another computer?? or is there something that needs to
> be done in the windows side?? any help would be greatly appreciated.

In your browser on the winblows box type http://ip_address_of_linux_box:80

The IP is most likey 192.168.0.2 or something like that.
To find the IP of the linux box on your LAN: sudo /sbin/ifconfig
Then you are prompted for the root password.

look for a line like this:

inet addr:192.168.123.135 Bcast:192.168.123.255 Mask:255.255.255.0

Good Luck

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