[ale] Apache mystery

[bjorn at sccs.swarthmore.edu (Bjorn Dittmer-Roche)]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004, Jim Philips wrote:

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> I installed Apache 1.3.29 on my Fedora Core 1 system. I can start the server
> just fine and it's running without errors. But when I try to connect to
> localhost with a browser, I get:
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> An error occurred while loading http://localhost:
> Could not connect to host localhost
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> There are no errors in the Apache logs. Indeed, nothing has happened on the
> server at all. I disabled my firewall and tried again. Same result. My
> hosts.allow file is set to allow everything from 127.0.0.1. I'm totally

I don't think apache goes through tcpwrappers (which is what uses
hosts.allow and hosts.deny), so I don't think it's that.

It looks to me like something is wierd with your httpd.conf. check netstat
to see which ports are open. Also try fuser to see what http.d has open.

	bjorn