on mandrake 10 i was hosting a personal site with apache. i upgraded to mandrake 10.1 and now i cannot connect to using my internal address from another networked PC or using my external ip (from inside the LAN and out from a friends computer). it will not even work when i type in localhost in the address bar.
any ideas on how to fix it?

Thanks,
-Craig

Are you sure it's actually running? A problem with connection on Apache is often simply from the server not being able to start, or not starting and continuing (stopping immediately because of lack of disk space, no log file... whatever).

Cool

Did you check if your mandrake box changed it's ip address?

-twantrd

yes i checked the ip table threw the router, all is same. and I'm pretty sure that apache is not running... but I'm not sure, i don't know how to check or how to manually start it. how do i go about this?

"ps ax | grep http" will show you if it's running, if not, and if apache IS installed, then at a low level run "/etc/init.d/httpd start" to start it. it might not be httpd though. possibly apache or apache2.

when i tried to start it, this is what i get

[root@localhost craig]# /etc/init.d/httpd start
Starting httpd-perl: [ OK ]
Starting httpd2: [ OK ]

i am still unable to load my site/server...now what?

see /var/log/httpd/ for log files about apache. also expand what "unable to load" means.... you should at least get a default apache test page when you go to http://localhost

i went to /var/log/messages and i found this
Dec 19 20:37:33 localhost partmon: Checking if partitions have enough free diskspace:
Dec 19 20:37:33 localhost partmon:
Dec 19 20:37:33 localhost partmon: Warning, free space for </> is only <0> (which is inferior to <20000>
Dec 19 20:37:33 localhost partmon: ^[[65G[^[[1;31m
Dec 19 20:37:33 localhost partmon: FAILED
Dec 19 20:37:33 localhost partmon:
Dec 19 20:37:33 localhost rc: Starting partmon: failed

could that have anything to do with it?

and no, i cannot get http://localhost, 192.168.1.100, or my external ip to work (it says connection refused)

hmm, not sure what just happend but http://localhost works now

-thanks for all the help

It's those mysterious mods (acid) tapping your box to fix it for you.

Cool