Hi

Fedora/apache setup

Fedora4 / Apache2 is running.

The Aim:
Xp to start I.E. and point it to a domain on the proposed development server.

Nic on server has sub interfaces configured with separate ip’s for each interface. httpd is listening on port 80. Would like to setup ip based virtual hosting for each interface, with separate ip and domain name.

I am able to ping ecomm.net from xp but unable to run host ecomm.net not even from fedora box itself?

Output from host ecomm.net
connection timed out; no servers could be reached

No chance of pointing I.E. to the domain.

Heres the setup from my understanding of fedora and apache:
Since a development fedora box is proposed, there’s no need for dns unless the box needs to resolve registered FQDN. In that case nameservers will be required. Instead /etc/hosts can do the resolving in place of dns.

Interfaces:
All are up, pingable and traceroutable.

/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.0.2 ecomm.net
192.168.0.5 desktop

/etc/hosts.allow:
ALL : 192.168.

/etc/hosts.deny
Empty. Nothing entered.

/etc/nsswitch:
files dns nisplus nis

/etc/sysconfig/network:
NETWORKING=yes
HOSTNAME=ecomm.net

/usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:
<VirtualHost 192.168.0.1>
# ServerAdmin webmaster@dummy-host.example.com
DocumentRoot /home/ecomm-online/public_html
ServerName ecomm.net
# ErrorLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-error_log
# CustomLog logs/dummy-host.example.com-access_log common
<Directory /home/ecomm-online/public_html/>
Options Includes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Can anyone assist please!

Just a long shot, but have you made sure that your firewall allows access to port 80 from other machines?
On fedora, probably iptables is used. So check out it's config.

Also, on your win XP box, try:
telnet ecomm.net 80
just to see if you can connect to port 80 (HTTP) on your server. If you can't, it's most likely a firewall issue, either on XP (if you have SP2 installed, it comes with a firewall) or on Linux, or on any interfering firewalls inbetween (if you have any on your network).

Also, have you set up routing on your network?
How are your 2 boxes connected to each other? Via a separate router, directly, ...?
What are the IP - subnet mask - gateway addresses on both?