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Running Apache 2.4.12 on Ubuntu. If issue a telnet 127.0.0.1 80 all seems to be running.
If I issue " curl 127.0.0.1 example.com and wget 127.0.0.1 example all seems to be running. But, if on my client laptop put an entry in the host file pointing to to Linux server and a domain e.g. 192.168.1.50 example.com from a browser if I enter http://example.com the browser returns "Unable to connect"
I have turned the firewall off using "ufw disable" still no change. I can ping example.com from client as it responds as expected.
See output below from telnet to 127.0.0.1 80 and issuing GET /HTTP 1.1 and curl 127.0.0.1 example.com
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP 1.1
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:06:57 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu)
Content-Length: 276
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL / was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) Server at GisRoad.home Port 80</address>
</body></html>
Connection closed by foreign host.
pauls@GisRoad:~$
pauls@GisRoad:~$ curl 127.0.0.1 example.com
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL / was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80</address>
</body></html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to Example.com!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Success! The example.com virtual host is working!</h1>
</body>
</html>
If I issue " curl 127.0.0.1 example.com and wget 127.0.0.1 example all seems to be running. But, if on my client laptop put an entry in the host file pointing to to Linux server and a domain e.g. 192.168.1.50 example.com from a browser if I enter http://example.com the browser returns "Unable to connect"
I have turned the firewall off using "ufw disable" still no change. I can ping example.com from client as it responds as expected.
See output below from telnet to 127.0.0.1 80 and issuing GET /HTTP 1.1 and curl 127.0.0.1 example.com
Trying 127.0.0.1...
Connected to 127.0.0.1.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP 1.1
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 22:06:57 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu)
Content-Length: 276
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL / was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) Server at GisRoad.home Port 80</address>
</body></html>
Connection closed by foreign host.
pauls@GisRoad:~$
pauls@GisRoad:~$ curl 127.0.0.1 example.com
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Not Found</h1>
<p>The requested URL / was not found on this server.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.4.12 (Ubuntu) Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 80</address>
</body></html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to Example.com!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Success! The example.com virtual host is working!</h1>
</body>
</html>
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Do you mean the /etc/apache2/sites-enabled
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Dave, my output proves that apache is working hence my output using telnet and curl and wget ..it is when I use telnet 192.168.1.50 80 - - says could not open conenction to the host, on port 80 from a CMD window on my client machine. I have disabled the firewall so when I get the status it returns . See below. So I am pretty sure its not the firewall stopping it on the Linux server.
pauls@GisRoad:~$ sudo ufw status
Status: inactive
pauls@GisRoad:~$
pauls@GisRoad:~$ sudo ufw status
Status: inactive
pauls@GisRoad:~$
You can not get to a remote server using 127.0.0.1. That only gets to your local machine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Localhost
ASKER
Andy,
Thanks I had to add that line into the ports.conf under /etc/apache2
Under Listen 127.0.0.1:80 I added 192.168.1.50:80 as you suggested
Thanks
Thanks I had to add that line into the ports.conf under /etc/apache2
Under Listen 127.0.0.1:80 I added 192.168.1.50:80 as you suggested
Thanks
telnet 192.168.1.50:80
However... telnet does not speak HTTP so you are not likely to get a usable response. curl and wget do speak HTTP.
http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manual.html
https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html#Invoking