Making apache server on linux machine accessible to windows machines
 

Hi All,

I'm new to linux Os.Recently I had installed Apache as well as apache tomcat on linux machine.

Actually our total environment is of windows machines.

As needed we have to go with linux for installing apache.

I'm done with installing apache and apache tomcat on linux machines.Both are working fine.

Now when I'm trying to access the webserver using http://ip-adress from the windows machine..I'm getting error.

I feel I missed our something that lets the communication between windows and Linux machines..What should I do to resolve this issue.

I'm able to ping linux and windows machines from each other.

Thanks in Advance
Zaadu aka ASP
[Owner and Founder of Zaadu]

You don't need to do anything to make Apache visible from different operating systems than the one it is running on.

If you can ping the server but not view the web page, then it sounds like Apache maybe isn't running. Can you view the site from the local machine? It could also be an inbound firewall blocking access to port 80 on the server.

Hi,

Try making telnet from the client machine to Apache server to port 80 (or on which the Apache service is listening).

Also as Mr. MS3FGX told try opening your web page from the local machine where Apache is running.

It will really help if you post the error that you get.

My Tomcat apache server is on a Linux machine with Ip 10.2.1.220

When I try to connect to this via firefox i'm getting

Unable to connect

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 10.2.1.220:8080.

Tomcat is running fine and I'm able to access it on the Local machine.

And Also I'm able to ping from windows to linux

I'm able to connect to Linux machine using telnet successfully... no errors

run the following command to check

telnet 10.2.1.220 8080

if it is not able to connect then check the firewall on your server. and allow the port 80 and port 8080.

I think you need to bypass the proxy in firefox or request the ip-address to be added somewhere in the proxy.

Thank you guys...Stopping Iptables resolved my issue...