Re: Apache problem: Can see http://localhost/ but not http://ipaddress/

From: Andrew (ag.fc3_at_blueyonder.co.uk)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:43:51 GMT

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I disabled the firewall through the fc3 'security level' app but still
have the same problem. Any ideas welcome!

Thanks,
Andy

On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:22:06 +0000, Andrew wrote:

> Thanks for the quick reply...
>
> At the risk of sounding very green now... the firewall on the router
> doesn't appear to be the issue, but not sure about on the local machine.
> Does fc3 have a firewall installed as standard?
>
> On Sun, 13 Feb 2005 12:13:31 +0000, Davide Bianchi wrote:
>
>> On 2005-02-13, Andrew <ag.fc3@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>>> works! Apache on fc3 returns, "The connection was refused when attempting
>>> to contact 192.168.0.101".
>>
>> Probably because "localhost" resolve to 127.0.0.1 so trought the loopback
>> device, while 192.168.0.101 is caught by the firewall.
>>
>> Davide

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