I'm trying to establish a web server using Apache through a PPPoE connection in a Linux environment(Redhat 9).

I have a static IP on my PPPoE connection.
Now my Apache can response http request when I use the browser built in Linux on the same machine as Apache, but no response from other computers on the Internet.

Please note that I can ping my static IP and get response from other computers.

Any hint or detailed instructions would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

What URL are you using from the internet to access your web server - is it something like http://www.yourdomain.com/? Is your domain name registered and delegated to a DNS (or dynamic DNS) provider? Is your httpd.conf set up to use this domain? Does it work when you user http:/123.123.123.123/, ie your IP address from the internet?

What errors are you getting - can you copy/paste the errors here please?

Thank you for replying my post!

I registered my domian name, but haven't link it to my static IP yet, so i just tried to visit my web server using the IP address(like 123.123.123.123) from a XP computer, and i was using Mozilla Firefox as the browser. The error message i got is like "no response form the server, may be the server is too busy or u don't have connection to the internet", and obviously this message can help me too much.

I know a lot computer knowledges in theory coz i'm a computer science major, but i don't have too much experience with Redhat and Apache. I set up the Apache using the GUI in Linux and i didn't edit the httpd.conf derictly.

OK, you've confirmed your Apache install on the Linux box because you can see your web page. Since you've also confirmed the network is working with ping, it could be your firewall not allowing the connection to port 80. That error about no response from server says it's not responding to connection attempts. On your XP box can you try telnet 123.123.123.123 80 (using the real IP address for your Linux box) to see if you can connect to the web server?

If that also fails... It's been a while, but I think the Redhat firewall scripts are in /etc/rc.d/init.d and called something like iptables or firewall. You can try temporarily turning off the firewall by running service iptables stop (or firewall, etc - depends what it's called) and re-trying the connection. If that works the firewall needs to be modified to allow connections to port 80.

I'd recommend emailing the moderators (reporting your own post should do it) and asking for this thread to be moved to the Redhat forum http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...splay.php?f=31. That way there's more chance that someone currently using Redhat (instead of my rusty memory) will be reading your post.

It worked! Thank you VERY much! Now could you give me some hint on how to modify the iptables? any document i can find in this forum can help me? Thank you again!

Running the following as root will allow new and established connection to port 80 on your Linux box. They also allow established connections outbound from port 80 on your Linux box. I've assumed your network interface is eth0, just change it to whatever interface you need. Redhat has firewall save and restore commands, so once you've got this working you should save the rules so that they are correctly restored when the system re-boots.
Unfortunately I don't have a Redhat box I can confirm all of this on... sorry about that