hi, i'm trying to set up an apache web server, everything seems to be working fine from
http://localhost
or
http://216.2.5.3 <-- my ip adress

from my computer they work fine, but if anyone else tries, they get an error saying that the website can not be found.. i have no idea where to start to look, can anyone point me in the right direction. i originally thought it might be user privlidges, but don't know where to look. i've done a few hours of searching on the net but seem to find all the tutorials either too simple or too complicated..

thanks
mark

Did you make sure your firewall(s) is open? I made the same mistake once before and booted myself in the rear for not after a few hours of poking around on my box.

do a service iptables stop

then retry

if it works, it is a firewall problem

if not

post the output of

netstat -tlnp

hey iptables stop didn't work
it wasn't a correct command and i couldn't find anything similar (i don't think i have an active firewall up, unless RH9 has one by default)

heres the other thing you asked to be posted!

Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:32768 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4170/rpc.statd
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:32769 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4288/xinetd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4409/mysqld
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:11983 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4738/wish
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4151/portmap
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 16198/httpd
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:6000 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4523/X
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:63251 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4738/wish
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:62643 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4738/wish
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4274/sshd
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:631 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 5666/cupsd
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:25 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 4309/sendmail: acce

so we can see apache is running on port 80..
what else should i do?

the command is

service iptables stop

or

/etc/init.d/iptables stop

The default install sets up a firewall, maybe you've passed to fast on that part.

What you can also do is portscan the machine, you'll see what ports are open.

hth

My default directory for Apache is /var/www/localhost/htdocs. If I'm having an Apache problem it's usually because everything in htdocs needs to be owned by "apache" and needs to belong to group "apache".
I do this:
cd /var/www/localhost
chown -R apache htdocs
chgrp -R apache htdocs

That usually fixes it. HTH.