Last week I managed set up a basic webserver and now its not working

[adrian29uk]

I would really appreciate someones help.

Last week I managed set up a basic webserver using Fedora Core 3 and Apache. In my wisdom I decided to install Fedora Core 4 and Apache using the same settings I did in Fedora Core 3 and guess what its not working now lol. I would like to know where I am going wrong or there is anything else I need to set up again. This is my set up I hope it is clear enough and I am sure this is what I did last time when it worked.

1) I have registered a domain name at dyndns.org inside the control panel the domain name is pointing at my wan ip address.
I have checked my ip against the one dyndns.org and they are both the same.

2) Apache has been started and is running when I enter 192.168.1.3 in my browser it takes me to the default Apache page.

Inside my http.conf I have set listen to 192.168.1.3:80 I have saved this stopped Apache and restarted Apache

I have not changed anything else in the http.conf file apart from this.

3) I have set my router to forward on port 80 to the ipaddress of this machine which is 192.168.1.3

4) I have turned off SELINUX whatever this is, excuse my ignorance im still learning Linux

5) My firewall is enabled in Fedora

6) I have been to a few websites to scan my ports and they are all saying that Port 80 is open which means my IP is not blocking it.

7) I have set up my hosts file and added the line
192.168.1.3 adrian-is.a.geek.org



Last week the above set up worked a treat, when I asked people to test my domain name they where being taken to default Apache page. I also checked my Apache logs and saw the different IP addresses.

Nothing works this time around. I cannot understand where I am going wrong. Your help and advice would be really appreciated. Am I missing something out here.

[Monkeh]

Is your DynDNS name adrian-is.a.geek.org? Because that doesn't exist.

[adrian29uk]

sorry it is adrian.is-a-geek.org my mistake

[adrian29uk]

Hang on I might have seen where I am going wrong here. I think I have been giving out thw wrong address I am such a plank.

Could you try http://adrian.is-a-geek.org

[Monkeh]

hehe, that one works a treat.

[adrian29uk]

Thank you very much for your help. This is the second time I have set up a basic server now. This time I am going to write down what I did and not lose it and also list what I need to look out for.

Mission accomplished!!!

My next mission will be to install PHP and get MYSQL running, then I can test my scripts across the network without having to FTP to my webhosts all the time.

[Monkeh]

PHP is pretty simple, thankfully.. Good luck with MySQL however, I've never got my head around it.