Hi,
besides from getting odbc running on postgresql,
my server is ready to go ...
But how do I get it online ?
Local is everything working,
but nobody can access from outside my lan ...

I run Apache 2 on mandrake 10

How are you connected to the internet? Directly or through a router / gateway?`
Have you set the appropriate firewall rules to allow traffic on the desired ports?

I'm new to linux, have mercy

What I have done:
installed mandrake 10
internet access through cable modem
internet sharing (ip masquerading) with windoze pc's in a lan
got apache, tomcat connected and running (with everything else needed)

And with the wizard in the control centre set up the firewall to
"Allow Web Server"

I suppose you suggest do test without the firewall ?

Is the cable modem just a modem or has it a router integrated?
Is your pc with the web server running directly connected to the modem or through your windows pc, which is connected to the modem?
If it is your windows box through which you access the internet, you have to enable in windows to forward the desired connections to your server.

all running on linux,
linux is configured as a router
(it doesn't really matter, just to show it's all connected to internet),
the cable modem is just a "stupid" modem.

So ...
localhost works,
and from the windoze I can access the apache webserver pages
with the ip address linux got from the provider.
My ip address can even be pinged from outside my lan,
just my webserver isn't available ...

It's purely a configuration issue ...
and I can't find info on the internet that helps me.

Well it does matter, since if your server box was not directly connected to the internet, but through a gateway / router, you would have to configure the gateway / router to forward the desired services to your server box.

Now, you are directly connected to the modem. aren't you?
Try if you can reach your server while firewall disabled (but do it quick )
Be sure to connect to the correct ip.

anything you say ;+)

so my firewall is down,
still nobody get any result loading a page ...

Please answer all of my questions. I can't help you if i don't know the answers to them.
Those were:
- Is your server directly connected to the modem or not?
- Do you use the correct ip (really the one of your server)? Check it (ifconfig).

sorry, thought is was clear from earlier posts ...

eth0: internet
eth1: lan
linux has ofcourse the apache 2 webserver running.

the ip address is right ;+)

mmhh, i can't think of any other issue that could cause that people from outside can't but people inside your lan can access your webserver than those 2 i mentioned: either firewall or forwarding problem.
Have you checked whether the firewall successfully shut down?
Type iptables -L to check and post the output.

iptables -L brings both my LAN connections
as internet all together down :+)

iptables -L just prints out all iptables (=firewall) rules, it doesn't affect anything about the firewall itself.
Either you turn off the firewall temporarily to check whether you can be accessed from the internet, or you verify that you have applied the rules to allow traffic to your web server on both interfaces (both eth0 and eth1). On eth1 (intranet) your server can be accessed, so there must be something missing on the rules on eth0 (to internet).

My mistake,
that happens when you work on 2 different pc's at the same time.
I performed a iptables -F (flush) ...
never mind, here's the iptables -L output

[root@d5772a62 conf]# iptables -L
Chain INPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere
DROP !icmp -- anywhere anywhere state INVALID
eth0_in all -- anywhere anywhere
eth1_in all -- anywhere anywhere
common all -- anywhere anywhere
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere LOG level info prefix `Shorewall:INPUT:REJECT:'
reject all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain FORWARD (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
DROP !icmp -- anywhere anywhere state INVALID
eth0_fwd all -- anywhere anywhere
eth1_fwd all -- anywhere anywhere
common all -- anywhere anywhere
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere LOG level info prefix `Shorewall:FORWARD:REJECT:'
reject all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain OUTPUT (policy DROP)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere
DROP !icmp -- anywhere anywhere state INVALID
fw2net all -- anywhere anywhere
all2all all -- anywhere anywhere
common all -- anywhere anywhere
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere LOG level info prefix `Shorewall:OUTPUT:REJECT:'
reject all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain all2all (2 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
newnotsyn tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp flags:!SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
common all -- anywhere anywhere
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere LOG level info prefix `Shorewall:all2all:REJECT:'
reject all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain common (5 references)
target prot opt source destination
icmpdef icmp -- anywhere anywhere
reject udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:135
reject udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpts:netbios-ns:netbios-ssn
reject udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:microsoft-ds
reject tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:netbios-ssn
reject tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:microsoft-ds
reject tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:135
DROP udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:1900
DROP all -- anywhere 255.255.255.255
DROP all -- anywhere BASE-ADDRESS.MCAST.NET/4
reject tcp -- anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:auth
DROP udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW udp spt:domain

Chain dynamic (4 references)
target prot opt source destination

Chain eth0_fwd (1 references)
target prot opt source destination
dynamic all -- anywhere anywhere state NEW
net2all all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain eth0_in (1 references)
target prot opt source destination
dynamic all -- anywhere anywhere state NEW
net2fw all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain eth1_fwd (1 references)
target prot opt source destination
dynamic all -- anywhere anywhere state NEW
loc2net all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain eth1_in (1 references)
target prot opt source destination
dynamic all -- anywhere anywhere state NEW
loc2fw all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain fw2net (1 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
newnotsyn tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp flags:!SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain icmpdef (1 references)
target prot opt source destination

Chain loc2fw (1 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
newnotsyn tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp flags:!SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW multiport dports domain,netbios-ns,netbios-dgm,netbios-ssn
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW multiport dports http,https,domain,ssh,ftp-data,ftp,netbios-ns,netbios-dgm,netbios-ssn
ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp echo-request
all2all all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain loc2net (1 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
newnotsyn tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp flags:!SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain net2all (2 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
newnotsyn tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp flags:!SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
common all -- anywhere anywhere
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere LOG level info prefix `Shorewall:net2allROP:'
DROP all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain net2fw (1 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
newnotsyn tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp flags:!SYN,RST,ACK/SYN
ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW multiport dports domain,netbios-ns,netbios-dgm,netbios-ssn
ACCEPT tcp -- anywhere anywhere state NEW multiport dports http,https,domain,ssh,ftp-data,ftp,netbios-ns,netbios-dgm,netbios-ssn
ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp echo-request
net2all all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain newnotsyn (6 references)
target prot opt source destination
LOG all -- anywhere anywhere LOG level info prefix `Shorewall:newnotsynROP:'
DROP all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain reject (11 references)
target prot opt source destination
REJECT tcp -- anywhere anywhere reject-with tcp-reset
REJECT udp -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-port-unreachable
REJECT icmp -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-unreachable
REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

Chain shorewall (0 references)
target prot opt source destination

I didn't mean to print the whole iptables, but the content of it after turning off the firewall (to verify that it shut down correctly).

Anyway, i had a quick look at it, and the Problem seems to be in your FORWARD chain:
This rule forwards all your traffic from the internet to somewhere else (i don't know where though) instead of letting the connection to your linux box directly access.

ok ..............

how do I solve it ?