Apache...

I have opened port 80 in shorewall.

I did a port scan on www.pcflank.com

It says it is closed (normally stealthed) on port 80.

The httpd service is running. But isn't listening. (I checked under netstat)

It is not the ISP. I have changed the port number and restarted the service to check it it blocks 80)

How will I get apache to listen?

I thought when httpd was running it enabled listening on 80?

Help would be great.

Neil

Running mandrake 9.1/shorewall/iptables

You sound like you know what you're doing so this is probably something you have tried already -

Should be two lines in your httpd.conf that go something like this:

Listen *:80
Port 80

By placing a star in the Listen directive I found that httpd glooms all bound IPADDR's - I presume you've done this but it's all I can think of that might help - good luck.

Bleah

Port 80 was specified for listening.

I added *:

Unfortunately it still does not listen.

Thanks for trying

Welcome.. and sorry it didn't work for you.

Can you post the output from this netstat command:
netstat -nlp

Here is it david:

btw (I do understand some ports shouldn't be listening to the internet in this info)


Active Internet connections (only servers)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:2849 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
17599/xinetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:139 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
3542/smbd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
12858/
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
29613/X
tcp 0 0 81.132.4.62:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
1218/
tcp 0 0 192.168.1.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
1218/
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
1218/
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
30548/sshd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
14743/cupsd
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:953 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
1218/
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:1024 0.0.0.0:*
1218/
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:513 0.0.0.0:*
16596/rwhod
udp 0 0 192.168.1.1:137 0.0.0.0:*
2511/nmbd
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:137 0.0.0.0:*
2511/nmbd
udp 0 0 192.168.1.1:138 0.0.0.0:*
2511/nmbd
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:138 0.0.0.0:*
2511/nmbd
udp 0 0 81.132.4.62:53 0.0.0.0:*
1218/
udp 0 0 192.168.1.1:53 0.0.0.0:*
1218/
udp 0 0 127.0.0.1:53 0.0.0.0:*
1218/
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:67 0.0.0.0:*
14183/dhcpd
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:*
12858/
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:631 0.0.0.0:*
14743/cupsd
raw 0 0 0.0.0.0:1 0.0.0.0:* 7
14183/dhcpd
Active UNIX domain sockets (only servers)
Proto RefCnt Flags Type State I-Node PID/Program name Pat
h
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 1246 2593/ /tm
p/.font-unix/fs-1
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 6565 29613/X /tm
p/.X11-unix/X0
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 15021 1922/kdeinit: Runni /tm
p/ksocket-alastair/kdeinit-:0
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 15128 2697/artsd /tm
p/mcop-alastair/localhost-0a89-3f39dba5
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 15050 30858/kdeinit: klau /tm
p/ksocket-alastair/klauncheru6MM0a.slave-socket
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 17720 22478/ /tm
p/ksocket-alastair/kdesud_:0
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 15025 20668/kdeinit: dcop /tm
p/.ICE-unix/dcop20668-1060756383
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 15178 2719/kdeinit: ksmse /tm
p/.ICE-unix/2719
unix 2 [ ACC ] STREAM LISTENING 15064 21489/ /tm
p/.fam_socket
Active IPX sockets
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State

Well apache isn't listening on port 80. Try restarting it.

When I start httpd. Is says [ok]

But when I run the "entended status" command..
have a read below:

What could it be?

[root@localhost admin]# /etc/init.d/httpd version
Usage: /etc/init.d/httpd {start|stop|restart|reload/graceful|closelogs|update|status|configtest}
[root@localhost admin]# /etc/init.d/httpd status

Apache is *not* running.

Use /etc/init.d/httpd extendedstatus for more information.

[root@localhost admin]# /etc/init.d/httpd extendedstatus

Looking up localhost
Making HTTP connection to localhost
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.

lynx: Can't access startfile http://localhost/server-status

##############################################################################
[root@localhost admin]#

hmmm...if you run:

apachectl -t

does it say the Syntax is OK? You may have a minor syntax error in httpd.conf that is screwing things up.

Thanks for a quick response. -t will be the same as configtest.
There is no -t featured in the commands list to do with apachectl.

[root@localhost conf]# apachectl configtest
Checking configuration sanity for Apache 2.0: [ OK ]
[root@localhost conf]#


The config file is pretty much standard as it came.
Only tried different port numbers now and again.

Thanks for trying to help.

Try running it in interactive mode. Use the "-X" switch when running the httpd binary.