accessing linux machine running apache

[hayri]

hello dear professionals;

i am learning linux so my questions may be simple but i appreciate if you help me,

i opened httpd apache on my linux machine (ntsysv opened httpd service) and when i write localhost on my browser it runs, but when i try to access from another machine (write ip number on browser) running windows on network it does not show the apache running page,
how do i make it work?

when i install on windows i can see running from another machine,

thanks in advance for your answers,

hayrullah
istanbul-turkey

[atreyu]

What distro of Linux are you using?

Perhaps there is a firewall running on the Linux machine? Try temporarily disabling it - the command depends upon your Linux distro but is usually something like:

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

Then try to access the webpage again.

Also, make sure your Windows PC can "see" your Linux PC - try a ping from the cmd window to test that.

Check the web server logs, too, in case anything is being reported there. Again, depends upon distro, but try this dir: /var/log/httpd/

[hayri]

i will try your suggestionsm and after i will let you know if it works,

ping between machines are successfull

[hayri]

thank you my friend after i run the command it worked,

[atreyu]

good. now you'll either have to disable the firewall upon reboot, or add a rule allowing port 80 out of your firewall.

to disable iptables, it depends on your distro (tired of hearing that yet), but you can try:

chkconfig iptables off

if the command returns nothing, it worked. otherwise, tell use your distro and we'll help you turn it off.

The more security-conscious way is to add the iptables rule to your firewall - let us know if you want to do that - a bit more involved.