I am a total noob to Linux. I downloaded Red Hat 9.0 (Shrike) i386 from a european server near me. I have been tinkering with it for about a month now. What I am trying to do is start my computer business online. I bought a domain through easydns.com. At first I was having troubles keeping my IP updated as I am on a PPPoE account and have a constantly changing IP address. I downloaded, installed and configured ez-ipupdate, linksysmon (for my linksys router) and have installed net-snmp, but cannot figure out how to configure it. My IP Updates on easydns, so I know that is working. Anyways that is off of the subject. I have my router setup to port forward my ports 80 and below to my ip of 192.168.1.104. I also have that setup as a DMZ host. From a windows box i do an ipconfig and get no packets lost. I can use putty from anywhere in the world to connect to my box, yet when I type in my website, I get nothing. Any help with this will be much appreciated.

have you check if your ISP blocks port 80?

Umm no, they all speak german. If they do how do I get around it

change the listening port on apache ..(httpd.conf)

to 8080 or 81

and then test it , to see if works on a different port. if it does , obviously they block port 80....

hope it helps

Ok so I tried that then realized that httpd is not starting. For a while there, I was getting an error when I tried to start it, but now I get no error just [FAILED] when I use service httpd start

have you made any changes to the httpd.conf?