Ok so i intsalled a lamp webserver on a computer running only linux. It does not have a domain associated with it and as far as i know, know firewall. its ubuntu 10.4 and it worked for a while until sometime today it began to stop. When i type the ip of the server into firefox on the same computer that the server is on i get no problems and the page says it works! But when i try to acess it from other computers on the same wifi network by typing 192.168.1.112 as the url it cannot connect. Ive restarted apache to no avail. Any help would be greatly apreciated btw the servers name is srvme and typing that in also does not work. THanks!

First, use server IP for ServerName directive value in httpd.conf

Can you ping the server IP from the clients ?

By default, Apache listens on Port 80. You can verify this by looking at the httpd.conf file.

If you aren't sure where it is, use locate httpd.conf to find it. Then you can use cat /[path to file]/httpd.conf | grep Listen to see the port without having to read the entire file.

(cat reads the contents of the file. The pipe "|" "pipes" or sends it to grep, which extracts the lines containing the word "Listen" [case sensitive] and displays them to the screen. It took me five years to understand the simple elegance of this.)

Also make sure that incoming Port 80 is open in your firewall.

If the ping doesn't work, check your ICMP settings.

Can you ping the server from the client?
Can the server ping the client?

If no to these questions could be a routing issue.
ping the router/default gateway.
If not
Power cycle router and check settings.

Is this a main host or virutalhost?

Selinux enabled?
if yes disable it and then test it. I once went through all kinds of trouble with a server come to find out it was selinux preventing it.

OK so i cannot ping the hostname (srvme) or th ip address but now i am able to connect to the server, I'm just worried that it'll stop working again like it did last time. I will run these tests and post another soon