On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 00:47 -0400, Todd Zullinger wrote: > I'm not sure what I've got wrong then. If I change /etc/hosts to: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost localhost.localdomain > > it works. If localhost.localdomain is the canonical name in > /etc/hosts, I get denied. Using your examples, I found the same. I've not done this with FC7's Apache before, but I've certainly used localhost without any problems, with Apache on prior Fedora releases. I keep forgetting that the server is still on FC4. There's something screwy, here. With that line, if I try to find the IP for either name, I should be told it. And I am, either will resolve. If I try to find the name for that IP, I'll be told the first one. Apache acts like it's doing a double lookup (names to IPs and back again). The expected behaviour: Set Apache to allow from localhost. Try browsing http://localhost/ from localhost.localdomain. The check should find out the IP for the localhost.localdomain and see if it's the same IP for localhost. > I added a localhost.localdomain zone to my local DNS and things still > wouldn't work. (I'd previously only had a localhost zone.) I've got both, I've had them that way since my nameserver was set up on FC4. I don't know if IPv6 muddies the waters... [root@bigblack conf]# host localhost localhost has address 127.0.0.1 localhost has IPv6 address ::1 [root@bigblack conf]# host localhost.localdomain localhost.localdomain has address 127.0.0.1 > Commenting out the localhost entry in /etc/hosts didn't work either. > > Care to test this out and let me know if it's just me (and Charles) > with this problem? I created /etc/httpd/conf.d/test.conf with the > following content: > > Alias /tmp /tmp > > <Directory /tmp> > Options Indexes > Order deny,allow > Deny from all > #Allow from 127.0.0.1 > #Allow from localhost > #Allow from localhost. > #Allow from localhost.localdomain > </Directory> > > In /etc/hosts: > > 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost > > I am able to browse to http://localhost/tmp/ with either the 127.0.0.1 > or localhost.localdomain allow lines uncommented. Neither the > localhost nor localhost. allowed me to access the URL. Confirmed. Personally, I've always avoided using localhost. About the only time I do is when browsing the CUPS configuration server. Otherwise, I normally use the name of the machine to browse to, and IPs in the Apache restrictions. -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
