Apache HTTP server won't work.

[Disillusion]

Well, what happens if you type 127.0.0.1 into a web browser on the computer running Apache?

Oh it works fine on the localhost.

I also got my other computer on the LAN to connect to the server by typing in the IP address of the computer that the server was hosted on.

 

[Law]

What if, you plug directly to your modem, which will bypass the router. Then let your friend try again, this time there shouldn't be any port forwarding involve. Will this work, if not I might think it's your ISP.

 

[Disillusion]

What if, you plug directly to your modem, which will bypass the router. Then let your friend try again, this time there shouldn't be any port forwarding involve. Will this work, if not I might think it's your ISP.

He knows a guy who works at my ISP and he's going to ask him about it today, I think.

 

[office politics]

change the port to find out.

http://forums.macnn.com/54/unix/18194/changing-apache-port/

 

[Law]

Yea good idea, if you do change the port to say 8888 or 8080, make sure your friend append that port on his web browser.

[url]http://ip_address:8888[/url]

and port forward that port to the internal IP address of the Apache server.

 

[Disillusion]

According to the guy at my ISP, they aren't blocking it so that's not my problem.

I've bypassed the router and turned off the firewall on my computer and it still isn't working to the outside world. Within my LAN, I can connect to it no problem.

WTF do I do now? Is there some configuration I'm missing?

 

[Law]

That's just strange because I don't believe it's a firewall problem or maybe it is, because if you're running a firewall or maybe a anti-virus program with firewall features, it might just be permitting computers in your LAN and denying others from different sources.

*EDIT*
Or maybe your apache httpd.conf file is denying these sources, have you check?

 

[Disillusion]

That's just strange because I don't believe it's a firewall problem or maybe it is, because if you're running a firewall or maybe a anti-virus program with firewall features, it might just be permitting computers in your LAN and denying others from different sources.

*EDIT*
Or maybe your apache httpd.conf file is denying these sources, have you check?

I tried testing it with NO router and my firewall, anti-virus on the computer turned off. It's still not working when trying to access it across the internet. Computers on the LAN can connect to it, but computers trying to connect through the internet can't.

 

[Law]

It's gotta be your apache setting, that's what I'm leaning towards more.

 

[Disillusion]

It's gotta be your apache setting, that's what I'm leaning towards more.

I guess I'm not sure what to configure here. All the tutorials I've found on apache just say to install it and it should work and that you might have to open ports on the firewall/router, etc...