We had CentOS 6 working hosting our web site for a while. Lately, it seems to have "given up". We could no longer YUM or get software updates - it would go thru all the mirror sites and not find the file(s) it was looking for.

So - updated to CentOS 7. This seems to be a happier system to work with. It readily finds the proper files, and has allowed some of the updates/addons we unsuccessfully tried in v6.

BUT: We can't see the web site. I've gone thru the Firewall, and thought I allowed all the proper ports, etc - but it's still not there. I've tried to update IPTABLES, and even made a file, but it errored out. I'm afraid to STOP the firewall, thinking that my IPTABLES wouldn't work, and the firewall wouldn't come back. I'd really hate to re-install this all again. This is the third time.

/etc/hosts has the IP address/website
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf has been modified - or sufficiently messed up. Do I need VirtualHosts - for just one website? (I'd eventually like to make two - or more, but
let's get ONE running first)

Can someone help me make the website visible to the world?

Thanks much.

I don't know the major differences between CentOS6 and 7 but I suspect there aren't that many, so save your firewall rules:
and you can reload those back up using
This will allow you to stop the firewall and troubleshoot further if it is the firewall.

Hope that helps.

You don't need Virtualhosts per se for a single site.

Habitual,

Really neat ! V7 is now online !

I would now like to know why I can't see it locally (on machines on the local net) - but I can start another thread for that.

Thanks so much !

Butch

You are very welcome!