Accessing My Site

[paul]

Basically, I have a home network. One perticular computer has a webserver set up (sometimes tux, sometimes apache). I can access the page with localhost just fine, but when I try from another computer on the network, it doesn't work.

I know it doesnt really have to do with HTML but i didnt know where else to put it.

[sde]

what o/s are you running? i'm gonna assume linux and move this post there =)

how are you trying to access the web server from the other computers? have you tried just the IP? or are you using the hostname?

[devin]

Modern Linux distrobutions close the ports to all using TCP wrappers. Check out /etc/hosts.deny and /etc/hosts.allow and make sure they are setup to allow all.

And make sure your ISP isn't firewalling off incoming port 80. Broadband providers don't want people running servers so they close 80. You could move it to another port though (i.e. 8080)

[paul]

yes, im using linux. im pretty sure that my computer allows port 80. i know my isp doesnt want you to start a server, but I have before and its worked.

im using the IP to access it. im just using the local ip because I have a router, so i type http://192.168.1.100. I think that this might be the problem.

[redhead]

If your machine only has an internal IP, then you need to portforward any request to the router, comming form the outside to port 80, onto your internal IP, else your machine havn't got a chance to even know anyone is trying to contact it from the outside.

::EDIT::
Sorry didn't close read your first post, if the problem is, that you can't access it from another machine on the internal net, then you need to make sure the http-server is configured to accept connection from any net interface on the machine.

In apache this is depending on the info in the "BindAddress" setting, if this is set to localhost, then only connections requesting localhost will be accepted. For any interface, either comment this out, or set it to *

And make sure the "Port" setting is specified to 80.