Apache Question

[Muser]

I am running Mandrake 10 Community on a Gateway GP7-500, w/ Apache 2.0 and a Netgear MA101 Version B Wireless USB. I can successfully connect to the internet and any other web program, but for some reason Apache is not broadcasting what I have hosted. I can go to http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 (not my IP) and view the site I have (phpBB 2.1.2), but only on the computer running Apache. Any ideas?

[ooop]

have you checked permissions and all that...?
maybe noone is allowed to view your page
except localhost...?

any errormessages??
or just the old 404 ??

[markj]

Do you have a firewall running if you do turn it off and see if you can connect then. if you can you need to alter your firewall rules

[Muser]

i'll check my permissions, what should they be? View and Executeable by all? Are we talking about the type permissions that can be edited by right clicking on the folder I'm trying to host (/var/www/html)? If I go to it on any other computer, in IE or Mozilla, I get a Cannot find server error. Is because of permissions? oh and i have no firewall running.

[ooop]

If it says "cannot find server", then I don't think it has anything to do with permissions (and I was sorta talking about those in apache.conf)....

[kpzani]

jason lambert posted something in the forum before about PHPBB needing to have a var set with its server name in. obviously from outside the pc it would not be localhost.

try using its real ip address or domain name.

[Muser]

i've tried that, but it doesn't work. not matter what, no computer (besides localhost) can find the server @ http://127.0.0.1

[markj]

You need to put the ip of the apache server when you try and access it from another machine i.e 192.168.0.10 or the server name not 127.0.0.1 or localhost.

[Muser]

ya i found a new IP address that works http://192.168.0.7 but can now i can only access it though computers on my home network (basically it's become an intranet). So how do it get it to "broadcast" (host, server, w/e) to any computer, become a part of the internet.

[Giro]

Setup port fowarding on your router to route all incoming traffic on port 80 to 192.168.0.7:80