Hi,

I have SuSE 9.0 installed with the Apache Web Server.

I went into YAST Http Server Configuration and configured it with the following:
server name: thenetquest.com:8081
listen on: 8081.

I can access ther server from a web browser by typing in eather thenetquest.com:8081, localhost:8081, or 127.0.0.1:8081, however i am unable to access the server from any other computers in my home network.

I went into yast firewall configuration to see if that was the problem but there wasn't any firewall configured so i dont think the frewall is causing my problem.

I tried editing /etc/hosts and adding:
127.0.0.1 thenetquest.com
but that didn't work eather.

Can anyoneplease help me?

thanks,

you're not trying to use 'localhost:8081, or 127.0.0.1:8081' from the other computers, are you?

try using the ip -- http://some.dotted.quad.ip:8081/

rofl, no.

rofl? so, can you ping the box, and get reply?

is your firewall open to traffic on :8081?

yes i can ping and get a reply. The firewall is actually turned off right now. I did try however enabling it with port 8081 open but that still didn't fix the problem.

then i figgure it's gotta be a problem in apache's conf file -- is it listening on :8081?

you seem to have some good idea of what you're doing, but give it a quick run through anyways to see if you missed something...

# Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or
# ports. See also the <VirtualHost> directive.
#
# http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod...on.html#listen
#
# Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to
# prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses (0.0.0.0)
#
# When we also provide SSL we have to listen to the
# standard HTTP port (see above) and to the HTTPS port
#
# Note: Configurations that use IPv6 but not IPv4-mapped addresses need two
# Listen directives: "Listen [::]:443" and "Listen 0.0.0.0:443"
#
#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
#Listen 80
#Listen 443



<IfDefine SSL>
<IfDefine !NOSSL>
<IfModule mod_ssl.c>

Listen 443

</IfModule>
</IfDefine>
</IfDefine>


# Use name-based virtual hosting
#
# - on a specified address / port:
#
#NameVirtualHost 12.34.56.78:80
#
# - name-based virtual hosting:
#
#NameVirtualHost *:80
#
# - on all addresses and ports. This is your best bet when you are on
# dynamically assigned IP addresses:
#
#NameVirtualHost *
Listen 8081

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I had apache working before on this computer, but i had to edit one of the system files to get it to work but i reinstalled suse with a new herddrive and can't remember what i did to get it to work.

do you think there couls be something wrong with my /etc/hosts file or some other default value that i forgot to edit in apach configuration? I looked but couldn't find anything obvious.

if you're using the IP from a remote box, it's not the hosts file

the only thing i'm wondering is why you put the listen at the bottom...

but since it works locally, and you can ping remotely, you've got me stumped... though i still figgure it's something overlooked with 1) firewall, or 2) config

If it works locally then that would lead me to believe that the configuration files for apache were fine. also why would the firewall interfear with web connections if it isn't evan enabled.

I am still stumped as to what the problem could be. any other ideas?