Well, I suppose I should title this "user issues not using Apache correctly," but I think you get the point. I've just recently installed and configged XAMPP on my rig and am trying to setup Apache to host a small site. After having everything setup, I can view the site at http://localhost/, but when i try to access it from another computer using my IP address, I can't see the pages. Perhaps this has something to do with my firewall settings in hosts.allow and hosts.deny? Or possibly my router/ISP (2WIRE wireless and SBC Yahoo/AT&T respectively) are just being difficult? I'd appreciate any info you guys have.

do you try to access the server from within a local network or via internet? If in a local network maybe your browser is using the default gateway to the router? Can you ping the ip?

Check the firewall rules on your machine

iptables -L
Is everything set to ACCEPT ?
if not, is there a rule to allow port 80 ?


is the listen directive set to localhost only ?
Post the output of the iptables command if you are unsure..

well, iptables output this when i used iptables -L:

FATAL: Module ip_tables not found
iptables v1.3.8: can't initialize iptables table "filter": iptables who? (do you need to insmod?)
Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded

Apache is set to listen on 80

Unfortunately I don't know enough to decipher the above output, other than that maybe I'll have to recompile my kernel with iptable support? I'm currently running 2.6.21.5.

probably you didnt run it as root
sudo iptables -L

Nope, I definitely ran it as root the first time. Just to be sure, I tried running it again as root this time and it produced the same results as before :-P. What's insmod?