[ale] A new web server

Ken Ratliff forsaken at targaryen.us
Sun Jan 18 20:54:58 EST 2009


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On Jan 18, 2009, at 6:50 PM, Terry Bailey wrote:
> The last time I installed Fedora, which was Fedora 9, there were no
> questions about a firewall.  This time when I installed Centos 5.2,
> it was necessary to answer a few questions about the software
> firewall which I suspect is iptables.  I wonder if it is a
> firewall  problem?  But you would think that if it was firewall, then
> the page would still not come down on  a browser refresh.  I think
> you are right in thinking that it is an OS problem.  All the
> directories are 755.

Doubt it's a firewall issue. iptables discriminates based on IP,  
protocol and port, so if it was a firewall issue, it wouldn't be  
working at all.

There's an easy way to test though. Log in as root and type iptables - 
F. That will blank the firewall rules and if you still get the same  
result, you can rule out the firewall.

> I tested it with a web page with no graphics and this time, it loaded
> immediately.  The code in the access_log was 200

I don't know if you're trying to be careful to expose too much  
information about your server, public mailing list and all, but if you  
could, post some log snippets from apache when it works and when it  
doesn't. And is the error log showing anything at all? (other than  
maybe a missing favicon.ico error, that is).

Honestly though, this kind of thing is a pain in the rear to  
troubleshoot without access to the box itself.

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