Apache Web Server

[lugos]

Hello All,
I'm fairly new to linux and I'm running Fedora Core 3 on my PC, and I'm trying to host a small website. I've registered the domain and I'm using everydns.net for DNS services. I've practically done everything in the following tutuorial: http://stanton-finley.net/fedora_cor...notes.html#Web. However, when start the server and type my IP address in the browser (Firefox), I get a "connection was refused..." error message. I also get that same message when I type www.mydomain.com in the browser. Would anyone know why that is happening?

Thanks,
lugos

[dylunio]

Have you configured port forwading on your modem/router? You need to forwand port 80 to your computers ip address.

[lugos]

Have you configured port forwading on your modem/router? You need to forwand port 80 to your computers ip address.

No, I don't think I've done that. How would I go about doing that? Do you know where I can get some information on that? Thanks.

lugos

[dylunio]

Ususally you can access the router/modem via opening a web browser anh putting it's ip as an address.

Once in you should be able to configure port forwarding

[digitalamar]

Have you configured virtual host section in the httpd.conf file?

sample is :

<VirtualHost *:80>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
# DocumentRoot /www/docs/dummy-host.example.com
# ServerName dummy-host.example.com
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
#</VirtualHost>

Regards,
Amar.

[ihayhurst]

Possibly obvious but have you checked the webserver is working by accessing it on http://localhost/ on the host machine?

Cheers Ian

[tstolber]

Also try checking in the httpd.conf file of apache that it is set to listen on the correct IP address and port.

As default its 127.0.0.1 - which is localhost.

You may also need to make sure that linux gives the correct permissions to the apache server. I believe your files will be in /www/

Good luck