I found the cause. Iptables was blocking the http requests on machine A. Thanks for your help Evan. -Madhav Ancha.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Madhav Ancha <madhavan...@gmail.com> wrote: > Machine B is a win box Evan. I did a "putty -raw 10.1.10.110 80" and got > back nothing. The connection was probably closed at the kernel and putty > quit. > > > On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Evan Platt <e...@espphotography.com>wrote: > >> At 12:08 PM 6/18/2009, you wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I started an apache server on a local machine(A) on linux. I can ping >>> this machine from another host(B) on the same network but I can't browse to >>> it using http://. I get the error saying "IE cannot display this page". >>> >>> I verified that the server is running on (A) by using < >>> http://localhost>http://localhost on the local machine (A). Are there >>> any more permissions I should be setting for machine B to be able to access >>> the http server on A? >>> >> >> Firewall? >> >> on computer B: >> >> telnet ip.address.of.a 80 >> >> What do you get? >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. >> See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >> " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org >> >> >
