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Old 02-10-2019, 09:07 PM   #1
mfoley
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lynx Can't access startfile


I have a website hosted on mydom.org. I'm trying to view a web page from that server using lynx:
Code:
# lynx mydom.org

Looking up mydom.org
Making HTTP connection to mydom.org
Alert!: Unable to connect to remote host.

lynx: Can't access startfile mydom.org
I've also tried www.mydom.org, http://mydom.org, http://www.mydom.org; and all the same variations of mydom.org/index.jsp (yes, I'm running tomcat). Same thing. I can successfully access this page using lynx from a remote host.

What's wrong?

Last edited by mfoley; 02-10-2019 at 09:09 PM.
 
Old 02-11-2019, 11:47 AM   #2
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I just ran
Code:
 lynx mydom.org
successfully. What does
Code:
ping mydom.org
return?
Code:
whois mydom.org
?
 
Old 03-02-2019, 07:26 PM   #3
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I solved this one indirectly. See https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...1/#post5968536. The problem was that daemon was the user trying to run lynx. daemon's home directory was /usr/sbin. Likewise with the issue in the referenced question, I was trying to run mutt as daemon and it wouldn't work. When I created a /home/daemon folder owned by daemon.daemon and pointed /etc/passwd to that directory for daemon, mutt started working. So did lynx!
 
  


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