Heya,

well, I'm approaching the end of my tether :/

I'm runing Apache 2 webserver on Fedora Core 2. The box is attatched via eth0 to a Netgear DG834 router to the intaweb.

Heres the problem. I can connect to the net fine, my ip address seems to be being resolved fine, I have set Apache to listen to port 8080, and the router has firewall rules redirecting port 8080 requests to my lan ip 192.168.0.2. I know the webserver is running 'cos I get the test page on localhost:8080.

For the life of me though, I cant reach the webserver using normal ip or DNS requests. Even when I was using port 80 (which I used on my old win2k server) it just led me to the router configuration page. The router logs say that the requests are being accepted and the firewall rules applied BUT THEY'RE NOT!! lol

Help!

Are you testing from outside, or inside your network? Most properly configured firewalls do not allow packets to traverse the external interface twice, i.e. come in from the internal network interface, loop around the external interface, and come back out the internal interface again.

Didnt know that. CHeers

I got someone else to check the addy though and they are getting a blank page of teh stylee **about:blank**
The mystery continues...

If they were connecting by typing your IP in their browser, and you have your website setup as a vhost, they would get the default page (usually it's the "you setup apache" page).