Around 05:20pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 16:52 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: > > Around 03:28pm on Sunday, April 12, 2009 (UK time), Patrick O'Callaghan scrawled: > > > > > On Sun, 2009-04-12 at 22:18 +0800, Nathan Huang wrote: > > > > Hi guys > > > > who can help me with opening 80 port for apache in iptables, I want to > > > > access my apache server from remote computer, but I failed in config > > > > iptables with 80 port. > > > > > > Why don't people just use system-config-firewall? It works perfectly > > > well for 99% of users and you don't need to understand anything about > > > iptables syntax. > > > > What a strange answer. Perhaps he's the 1 % who it doesn't work > > perfectly well for. Perhaps he doesn't trust it. Perhaps he didn't > > know about it. > > Configuring port 80 is so utterly standard that if the OP had tried > s-c-f and it didn't work I'm sure we'd have heard all about it by now. > > "He didn't know about it" is of course the most likely answer, so I > don't see why my reply is "strange". Becasue it wasn't asnwering what he asked. Letting him know alternative methods is fine, but I don't believe that implying that editing iptables is the wrong way is good advice. The old teach a man to fish... However on reflection my reply was a bit snippy. Apologies. Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_ No MS products were used in the creation of this message 18:43:59 up 6 days, 6:06, 1 user, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.07
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