nike_guy_man — Sat, 14 Apr 2001 16:40:45 +0000

nope nope nope
None of that worked.
Thanks for trying though
I have managed to get my site attached to my internal IP (192.168.1.20) and I have port forwarding set up on the router (port 80)
The Windows machine has Apache stopped
Linux has HTTPD started
When I have the Windows machine running with apache, it runs just fine and everything is put on the internet, but the Linux just won't
I have configured them just about the same.
What is wrong?
Should I start a new thread?

mairving — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 18:42:23 +0000

When you say external I assume that you are referring to accessing from the Windows machine. If so you should be able to access it by opening up your browser on the Windows machine and typing in:
http://(localhost). Localhost in this case is not what you use but the machine name of the Linux box. Here is how to do so:

(1.) Make sure that your machine actually has a name. Do this by editing your host file in /etc/hosts. It should have a line like this: (IP Address (hostname). So if you wanted your machine to be called Nike and your IP address was 192.168.100.1, then it would look like this 192.168.100.1 Nike.

(2.) Make sure that this machine name is specified in your httpd.conf file. The section called ServerName should also be the same as in the hosts file. In our example, it would look like so: ServerName Nike.

(3.) That will do it but you should probably also change your hosts file in Windows. The setup is the same.
(4.) Now you should be able to access your system via the browser. In our example, type in http://Nike. This will load the Apache index file.

Hope this helps.

nike_guy_man — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:47:40 +0000

Well I figured out that I needed to set chown and chgrp to apache
I can access the site on the intranet, but not internet
I have apache started and all, but It won't put the files on the Internet, only intranet.
I can get to my site by typing the internal IP, but not the external IP

mairving — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 16:14:15 +0000

Your apache directory is most likely set to root.

To see if apache is running (which it is, otherwise you won't get the 403 error). Type is ps aux | less . This shows all of your running processes. the | less part slows down the output so it doesn't scroll off of the screen. q will quit.

For Apache, you will have several running processes, a root process and several child processes.

Apache has a serverroot directory (usually /usr/local/apache, although Redhat uses /etc/httpd). You can also have a virtualhost directory. Wherever your pages are served from via httpd.conf, you need to change that directories ownership and group. It needs to be changed to whatever httpd.conf says for User and Group. This is usually nobody or webuser and webgroup.

So you need to change the permissions on the directory that your pages are served from like this (assuming that the user, group = nobody):

chown nobody (htdocs directory)
chgrp nobody (htdocs directory)
You will also need to change the files in the directory like so:
cd (htdocs directory)
chown nobody *
chgrp nobody *

That should fix you up. Let me know.

Also any time a change is made to httpd.conf, you need to restart the server. The way to do that is like this:
ps aux | less Find apache root process id.
kill (root process id)
httpd -d (serverroot directory) Restarts apache.

nike_guy_man — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 14:37:05 +0000

I'm trying to run Apache
I have httpd started (I think)
I configured it
When I type:
lynx localhost
it says, "Error 403: http forbidden"
I've changed permissions, I've changed httpd.conf many times
I need to get this fixed!

mairving — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 12:18:58 +0000

Explain it to me again.

How are you trying to connect through a ftp program or web browser? Please give me the details.

nike_guy_man — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:57:13 +0000

I'm still getting "403 Permission Denied"

mairving — Thu, 12 Apr 2001 00:45:34 +0000

hosts.deny ALL:ALL

hosts.allow
#Allow localhost
ALL : 127.0.0.1
# Allow my other box to connect to any service
ALL : IP address of Windows machine

If your ftp directory is root, then you will not be able to upload files to it. You can change it to nobody to allow anyone to do anything.

httpd.conf has nothing to do with ftp. ftp is controlled by the inetd daemon.

nike_guy_man — Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:32:40 +0000

Well, I wasn't sure what to do with the host.allow and hosts files.
No luck with samba share
I am trying to compare my old httpd.conf file but it says my disk is invalid...
I'll try again
What do I do with chown username /home/web
what username do I do? root?

mairving — Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:44:39 +0000

A couple of things to try.

(1.) You have three files located in the etc directory.
hosts - gives system name and any other servers on your network.
hosts.allow - says who can logon your system.
hosts.deny - says who can't logon your system.
Generally the way it is done is to deny all in hosts.deny and allow only you in hosts.allow.

It could be a permission problem. To check this go to your ftp directory and type in ls -l . This will tell you who the owner and group of this directory is. You can change the ownership by:
chown yourusername /home/ftp
chgrp yourusergroup /home/ftp

Let me know how this works.

Any luck on setting up the samba share?