I'm setting up an Ubuntu machine as a PHP dev workstation. I installed Apache 2 and PHP 5 and MySQL, etc. I've got Eclipse set up so that I can step through PHP scripts run from the command line or via apache. Very exciting.

I have configured it with a static ip address on my LAN (192.168.1.3) so that I can access it from other machines via SSH or browser. When I sit here at the workstation and enter http://192.168.1.3 into a firefox address bar, I expect it to open up the basic index.php file that's in my web root (/var/www/index.php). HOWEVER, It does NOT. The browser redirects to the roadrunner DNS lookup page as though it's trying to locate mbamv3.com.

Mbamv3.com is a non-existent domain which I just made up -- it's not registered or anything. I had this domain briefly in a 301 redirect rule in an apache configuration file while I was setting up but it does not currently live in any apache files or any network configuration files and I cannot for the life of me figure out why firefox would still be redirecting? Is something cached somewhere?

There are 3 places I would check:
Have you configured /etc/hosts to map your address to your domain?
Have you allowed access in httpd.conf on the server?
Have you checked your router settings?
and maybe if it works with other browsers but not firefox, I also would type in address bar in firefox 'about :config,
and google about the settings.

Good Luck

Thanks for your response.

I think the browser had cached a 301-redirect from a poorly written virtual host file. I cleared the firefox cache and it worked fine.