Topic: Situation Update, external users unable to access HTTP...

[Dave Wilson]

Okay, well, through some testing I've discovered that users who cannot get to my web pages through HTTP do have an option.  It's stupid option and not one I want to have active.  Going through securely works fine.

So, instead of HTTP they have to use HTTPS.  How do I stop this and make it go back to normal?  I am only competent enough to utilize the configuration options that are available through the Web based administration.  Beyond that I am clueless so I have no idea how this happened.  Any help would be greatly appreciated though.

Thank in advance.

[Jon Blakely]

Dave,

Have you checked with your ISP that they are not blocking port 80??

Jon

[Dave Wilson]

Yes, as far as they can tell everything is fine on their end.  I'm not sure but doesn't a secure connection still go through port 80?  I've never even thought about that so I'm not sure.

[Jon Blakely]

Dave,

No a SSL (https://) conection uses port 443.

Try using shieldsup from www.grc.com to do a port scan and see what result you get for port 80.

Also have you tried rebooting the server just in case it has got itself in a strange state.

The other thing to try is log into the console as root

# /sbin/e-smith/expand-template /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd-esmith restart

This will rebuild the httpd.conf and restart httpd

Jon

[Jon Blakely]

sorry that should be

# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd-e-smith restart

Jon

[Bas]

I have this problem too,

Rebooting or even reinstalling the server won't solve the problem.

I've had the problem since version 4.1.2 when i started using e-smith/sme-server

I have no clue of what is causing these problems, they just occur once in a while, after a few minutes evrything is fine again. Rebooting the service doesn't do much, it has the same result as being patient.

I use xs4all btw, hwat isp do you have?

[Bas]

I have this problem too,

Rebooting or even reinstalling the server won't solve the problem.

I've had the problem since version 4.1.2 when i started using e-smith/sme-server

I have no clue of what is causing these problems, they just occur once in a while, after a few minutes evrything is fine again. Rebooting the service doesn't do much, it has the same result as being patient.

I use xs4all btw, hwat isp do you have?

[Dave Wilson]

Hey Jon, not only have I tried rebooting, I've reinstalled from scratch with a minimum of config to make it work, I reset and reconfigured my router, and I've reset my modem.  Nothing works.

I'm gonna give that Sheilds Up a try and see what happens.  Thanks.

[raw]

Here is how i fixed this problem on my server YMMV
vi /etc/hosts.allow  ( i know it says do not edit this file directly)
add httpd : ALL
i also did this for ircd and everything works great