For certain that is not a standard default httpd.conf file. It has been modified to some other system or setup. A standard apache.httpd that comes from apache.org does not contain statements such as "Listen @@Port@@" The Listen directory in a standard httpd.conf would list something like Listen 12.34.56.78:80 or Listen *:80 Again I am assuming that the httpd conf file he has there is done A,) by the distro he is using or B.) a third party installation. The apache.conf file will be found in /etc/httpd/conf directory in a normal install. If it is located anywhere else it has been placed they by the distro itself or by a third party.

In your file you have the following line listed

NameVirtualHost 18418718138:4080

This need to be listed in the dotted quad notation...... For example

NameVirtualHost 123.456.789.012:4080

The way you have it currently I am surprised that Apache did not display an error. The command is httpd -t
-t Run syntax tests for configuration files only. The program immediately exits after these syntax
parsing tests with either a return code of 0 (Syntax OK) or return code not equal to 0 (Syntax
Error). If -D DUMP_VHOSTS is also set, details of the virtual host configuration will be printed.
If -D DUMP_MODULES is set, all loaded modules will be printed.


I tested your line and ran a configuration check on Apache and got the following.
It not only tells you there is a problem or not, but tells you where the problem is. In you case a syntax error.

[root@localhost conf]# httpd -t
Syntax error on line 212 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
Invalid command 'NameVirtualHost', perhaps misspelled or defined by a module not included in the server configuration
[root@localhost conf]#

It's a little hard to tell from that what the current situation is, so maybe a bit of an update here would be useful.

From what I gather, everything seems to work fine when checked using a LAN addressort, it is only the outside world that has a problem.

For what it is worth, I do something similar with my server, and the Listen directive in my httpd.conf file uses the LAN address:

Listen 192.168.1.45:80

Since Verizon doesn't block port 80, I don't have to go through port nonsense you do, but the server seems to be accessible from the outside world.

Hi, all -

I'm not going to be doing much work on the server today, as it is the first day of the new year. I do, however, think that a bit of an update is in order.

To clarify, I'm no longer running Xubuntu on any system, including the server machine. Every computer that I control is now running CrunchBang Linux, either Statler (which is based on Debian's stable branch) or Waldorf (based on Debian's testing branch). CrunchBang uses Openbox as a WM, which is useful because I'm not quite able to use a pure CLI system yet.

I've done some further modification to Apache files and router settings, as shown at http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=23670. I'll post the new versions of the files in a few days. At the moment, the best way to access the server is from this URL: http://184.187.181.33:8080

Feel free to try it and let me know if you can see anything. At the moment, it should just be showing a 404 error (cannot find /), but that's a good start.

Happy new year. Thanks, everyone, for helping me along for so long.