I believe I have the apache config set to 'Listen 80'. I don't have access
to the server right now so I'm not certain. I also didn't realize Squid was
installed so I'll need to check on that.
I'm hoping I can convince the network administrator at the schools to give
me either a static IP or put an entry for the 'schoolserver' in DNS.
Thanks again for the help. I'll keep you updated on my progress.
David
On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 9:58 PM, Jerry Vonau jvo...@shaw.ca wrote:
On Mon, 2012-10-15 at 21:41 -0500, Yannick Warnier wrote:
Hi David,
For once, I think I can help on this list :-)
I didn't have time to finish it, but I was actually writing a
documentation explaining the whole stuff and how to unlock your web
server.
For some reason (not explained by the author, neither that I understand
as of yet), the configuration of the web server (which you should be
able to find in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd-xs.conf) restricts the Listen
address to:
Listen 172.18.0.1:80
and/or
Listen 127.0.0.1:80
Just comment those lines (with a # prefix) and add
Listen 80
Then reload httpd
/etc/init.d/httpd restart
and your webserver should start responding from other machines.
Now, this might not be the case for you (I'm using the home-modified
Peruvian version) but it might also be the case that your virtual hosts
are configured somehow, somewhere (in the applications installed), to
only respond correctly when called as http://schoolserver/;. If this is
the case, then you would have to add the IP address and that name in
the /etc/hosts file of the clients. Something like
187.12.15.183 schoolserver
So you want to hand edit a whole pile of machines? Try that with 20+ XOs
and you'll get bored fast. There is a better way in nss-mdns and avahi.
Jerry
I think that would do it. Please let me know if it worked, because as I
was going mad about this, I started modifying files without taking
backups and now I'm not sure which was the initial state (and didn't
have time yet to reinstall from scratch).
Just as additional information: although there might be a Squid
configuration there, it doesn't seem to be blocking anything *entering*
the server, so the unavailability of the web server doesn't come from
there (this will save you a few gray hairs).
And while I'm at it, servers like that, distributed into the wild,
should really use a more orderly distribution than Fedora. The way this
server has been configured transpires a bit of lack of love. I'm not
offering myself to do it, but I wanted to leave my opinion here (just in
case many would agree).
Cheers,
Yannick Warnier
Le lundi 15 octobre 2012 à 20:37 -0500, David Kanenwisher a écrit :
Hello,
I'm trying to get the 0.7 of the school server to work on a laptop
that needs to be taken to different schools which already have an
existing network. I don't want to run the network setup tool since I'm
concerned enabling DHCP and DNS will cause trouble on the school's
network. Sadly, though not running the setup seems to have made the
HTTP server unreachable and I'm stumped as to why.
I set the hostname of the server to the IP address assigned to the
server by the router via DHCP and configured Apache to listen on all
interfaces. When I run netstat I can see Apache is listening on all
interfaces on port 80, as configured. I can use wget on the server to
retrieve the webpage at localhost, 127.0.0.1 and the IP address given
by DHCP. When I try to wget or telnet to the server from another PC I
get a message that the host is unreachable even though, using tcpdump,
I can see packets arriving on the server. Also, I can ssh to the
server from another PC.
I feel like I'm missing something obvious and was reluctant for quite
a while to message the list. I figured I must be close! The solution
just around the corner, but I realize now that I'm stumped.
Any help would be much appreciated or if you need anymore info I'd be
glad to get it.
Thanks,
David Kanenwisher
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