port 80

Hi..my users are telling me that they are getting a port 80 closed error. But only some of them...can you tell me why this happening?

-james

>> they are getting a port 80 closed error

When does that happen? Whenever they visit your site the 1st time or they are already in, but surfing from page to page?

What's the URL of your site?

Well, some one told me this was happening but a port scan seems to say it's open so I don't know.

But the wierd thing is that half of my users are getting to the sight and half are not.....

It seems that all people running IE are ok and the people using AOL or NETSCAPE are not getting in...


I don't know what's wrong...

my site is http://tinydates.com

I can e-mail some one my apache conf file if you think maybe I have it set wrong.


thanks,

-james


better yet..i uploaded the conf file to http://tinydates.com/httpd_conf.txt

might help to know that @home recently blocked port 80

>> the people using AOL or NETSCAPE are not getting in

Do you have a static IP? If you don't, using dynamic dns service like ZoneEdit is often reliable. Those users probably are using an outdated dns cache. So say your IP has been changed to another one, but they are trying to reach an IP that doesn't run any web server, obviously port 80 is not opened.

If you are really into this stuff, ditch mindspring.com and go for SpeakEasy.net. Speakeasy is the only DSL's ISP (I am aware of) that let you run anything without a restriction. Of course, you also get 2 static IPs and can request up to 10 (residential) for $2.95 apiece per month.

As for your Apache configuration:

1) Uncomment the following lines:

Listen 80
BindAddress *
LoadModule userdir_module modules/mod_userdir.so
AddModule mod_userdir.c
UserDir public_html

2) UseCanonicalName On

Change to Off

3) <Directory "/var/www/icons">
Options Indexes MultiViews

Change Options to None

4) <Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options ExecCGI

ScriptAlias'ed cgi-bin doesn't need ExecCGI, so set Options to None

5) <IfModule mod_php4.c>
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php4 .php3 .phtml .php

Remove .php3 and .phtml

6) If mod_perl script uses .pl extension,

AddHandler cgi-script .cgi .pl

Remove .pl

7) <Location /perl>
SetHandler perl-script
PerlHandler Apache::Registry
Options +ExecCGI
</Location>
</IfModule>

mod_perl is NOT CGI script. ExecCGI is for CGI script only. So remove +ExecCGI.

8) Move your <IfDefine HAVE_SSL> block to the bottom of your httpd.conf (the lowest priority).

9) Uncomment the following block:

#<Directory /home/*/public_html>
# AllowOverride FileInfo AuthConfig Limit
# Options MultiViews Indexes SymLinksIfOwnerMatch IncludesNoExec
# <Limit GET POST OPTIONS PROPFIND>
# Order allow,deny
# Allow from all
# </Limit>
# <Limit PUT DELETE PATCH PROPPATCH MKCOL COPY MOVE LOCK UNLOCK>
# Order deny,allow
# Deny from all
# </Limit>
#</Directory>

10) If you are really using SSL, put a ServerName directive within that <VirtualHost> block:

ServerName www.tinydates.com

You can't put ServerAlias though.

>> might help to know that @home recently blocked port 80

That has nothing to do with his problem. Further, @home is blocking incoming port 80 requests at router level, not outgoing.

Wow...thanks for the help!
I wish I had came back and checked this earlier!

Can you tell me how I would enable SSI now?


Thanks!

-james

1) Uncomment the AddHandler server-parsed line

2) Start here -> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/core.html#options