On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 23:30 +0800, Deepak Shrestha wrote: > I am trying to setup a home web for me to access files from other > locations. I don't know if this is fedora related problems or not. > Anyway my problem is like this: > > I am running httpd in my fedora 5 locally in LAN , which I have given > the static address (private 192.168.1.2) for this web server. I am > using ZyXEL Prestige 600 Series DSL Modem Router. I thave already > forward the port 80 and 443 in my router as instructed at > http://www.portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/ZyXEL/Prestige650R-33/Apache.htm > But when I try to access my site, it goes to the router's web > configuration page instead of showing the page from my fedora machine. If you're testing this from within your network, it might actually be working, and you're just seeing a side effect of internal connections staying internal (you don't go out, come back in again, and get redirected by your router), even if you're trying to browse to your public IP address (you're just going in and around the internal side of your modem/router). Try this test: Go to a website service like the HTML validator at the W3C, and try and validate your webpage. Also tick the option to show your source. If you see your website source code come back in the results, regardless of any errors or correctness to the HTML, your web server is accessible from the outside world. <http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html> I'll leave the secondary issue of good or bad HTML to your own judgement. Though, remember, broken code seems to work for some people, but then doesn't for others. If you're leaving a server open to the outside world, check you're not exposing any security vulnerabilities in the server; and through it, your system. Also, check you don't leak out private information, use the methods provided by Apache to limit access to things (by address, by logon credentials, etc.). -- (Currently running FC4, occasionally trying FC5.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
