Apache Mess

[redfoxstorm]

okay, I've gone off and confused myself. When I set my router to recieve calls on port 80, do I tell it the ip of the linux machine or the actuall virtual server which is http://127.0.0.1

????

Oh yeah, i keep putting a html file in the /var/www/html folder and the test page keeps popping up? its called index.html

RedFox

[serz]

Have you checked what's in /var/www/htdocs?

[redfoxstorm]

apache doesn't set up that folder when its installed. Plus all the docs say your suppose to put in it var/www/html folder ???

[serz]

Do a ls -l /var/www/html and post the output..

Well, the place where you put the files depends on the distro

So :P

[Giro]

For the ip you should use the external ip for the machine not the localhost(127.0.0.1) only your machine can connect to the loop back.

[redfoxstorm]

I now the router open up on 80 88 8080 1080 going to the ip of the linux machine. I can open the test page from the lan computer but not from the internet.

Does anybody know where a good tutorial is about webmin, i can't find a "good" one.

[redfoxstorm]

the default for red hat is var/www/html the ls for that folder is

index.html

weird huh?

[serz]

Tried cleaning your browser cache? You should be able to see that index.html you put there and not the Apache default page..

[redfoxstorm]

i reformatted, and installed something called webmin, and the var/www/html folder works now? I gues i just needed to start over new,

if you anybody knows how to use webmin to set up an html web server let me know

[Xenon]

You wont be able to test your external IP unless you are accessing it from an external host or VPNing to an external network. Ask a friend to test it for you when you are on a IRC server of using a messenger service, this is what I do anyway.

Webmin is pretty easy to set-up and there should be some install instructions on their site. Have a look at this:
http://www.webmin.com/download.html
I tend to use the .tar.gz version as it lets you tweak the settings a bit more but is still quite easy to do. If the instructions there arn't making much sense then just post for help, I know the install quite well :P