Re: Webserver/Firewall issue

if you can see it but others cant, id check to see if
you have the server somehow set up to only allow
certain users to view(.htacces i think).

check to see if you have "deny allow" order turned on
in the httpd.conf file as well.

also check to see if you have it set up to require a
logon somehow.

you might also check to see if there are any error
messages in the log file, and follow those. if you
have any, post them, might help us to help you. also
from the firewall as well.

you might try bringing somebodies laptop in and seeing
if that can see the server from the backside of the
firewall. (using a user name you know your server wont
recognise) if it can, it might sugest looking at the
firewall configuration for starters. if it doesn't try
a throwaway user name to see if it then can see the
server.

last thing i can sugest is to check the basic os
permisions on the folder you are using as the root
directory of your server, wrong settings there can
mean nobody but one person can read the files. but
that would probably result in a "forbidden" error page
rather than no response.

hope that helps and you get it working soon. when you
do figure it out, post it, im curious now too, but too
tired to think lol.

From: "Brian ThunderEagle"
Subject: Webserver/Firewall issue
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2004 01:29:19 -0500

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Well hello everyone, I haven't participated on this
list lately but I
have run into a problem that has me kind of stumped at
the moment.

What I have is an Apache web server running on Redhat
behind a
Smoothwall firewall. I've used this server in the past
many times and
have hardly touched the configuration files in the
past few years.
However once I got a new domain name I havn't been
able to get it to
work properly. I can't seem to figure out if it's the
web server or the
firewall. Here are the details:

I can access my web server perfectly fine within my
network. I can also
access it perfectly fine although extremely slow when
connected outside
the firewall. I can do nslookups on my domain name
(which is
www.ragingstorm.net ) and it returns the
correct IP address. Okay, everything seems pretty
good. Now anyone else
who has tried to access my server can't access it.
They receive the
correct IP address from the DNS records and they can
ping me but
whenever they try to load the webpage they get that
"DNS lookup" default
IE error page. I have had them try accessing the
website using http,
https, and directly by IP address but it doesn't work
for anyone except
me for some reason. I have ports 80 and 443 open open
and forwarded on
my firewall.

If anyone has any ideas at all please help me out,
I've been working on
this for a few days. I am including a stripped down
copy of my
"httpd.conf" file in case there is something in there
that I need to
change.

Brian ThunderEagle
thundereagle@hotmail.com

                
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Received on Sun Dec 5 00:36:01 2004