"The Connection was refused when attempting to contact foo"

I've tried localhost and i've tried my IP. I've even added the port to the end of the url when attempting to access my apache http server from the same machine. I've tried :80 and :8080

How do I solve this problem?

RedHat9 w/ KDE

Is apache running? What exactly are you typing in the browser? Have you tried http://127.0.0.1 or http://localhost or http://<actual-hostname-of-machine>

Unless you changed the port in your apache httpd.conf file to listen on another port, it should be default to 80 in which you don't need to specify.

More details will get you better responses.

as far as I know, apache is up and running, yes. I'm accessing the control panel for it through my KDE menu.

The connection is refused when attempting to access:
127.0.0.1
localhost
192.168.0.2 (the IP of the system)

I have tried (even though it doesn't really matter) with and without the http:// in front of it, and with and without the :80 and :8080 port specifier as well.

pinging each of these results in confirmed responses, so I know they are up and running, but something may be misconfigured with apache?

Also, this is the tip of the iceberg. After this, I am going to have the gateway server "serve" the pages from this box to the net in some form or fashion, but that's for another time. I can't even get this thing started *smile*

% ps -ef | grep httpd

What do you get? Is it there?

% grep ^Port /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

What does that say?

% telnet 192.168.0.2 80

Or replace 80 with whatever the Port statement returned above. Does this still give you a connection refused? If so - check your firewall settings. RH9 defaults to install a firewall (IPTables) setup - you may have to 'enable" port 80 there.

code:
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[root@localhost root]# ps -ef | grep httpd
root 3983 3948 0 15:26 pts/1 00:00:00 grep httpd
[root@localhost root]# grep ^Port /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
[root@localhost root]# telnet 192.168.0.2
Trying 192.168.0.2...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
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I forgot the port designator, which came up with interesting results.

code:
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[root@localhost root]# telnet 192.168.0.2
Trying 192.168.0.2...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
[root@localhost root]# telnet 192.168.0.2:80
192.168.0.2:80: Unknown host
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It seems that apache is not running. Verify this by typing (as root)
If it says "httpd is stopped," type (again, root)
to start it.

HTH
Ian

Well, that was the trick... Now it works just fine (why did I overlook a step this simple? *laughs at self*) Thanks for getting that up and running for me, even though it turned out simple. Now, the command to telnet to the IP that I was suggested didn't work, but it's serving my pages just fine now.

What and where do I need to put that to have the httpd service started each time I boot? (as opposed to when I log on)

code:
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[root@localhost root]# service httpd status
httpd is stopped
[root@localhost root]# service httpd start
Starting httpd: [ OK ]
[root@localhost root]# telnet 192.168.0.2
Trying 192.168.0.2...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
[root@localhost root]# telnet 192.168.0.2:80
192.168.0.2:80: Unknown host
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should do the trick

Ian