Httpd: Connection Reset

[br0ken]

I've installed Apache (httpd) but can't load any pages. I've tried accessing localhost and 127.0.0.1 but neither work.

 

The page loads and loads but I always get the error Connection Interrupted.

 

Any one know what could be the problem?

 

I'm running Ubuntu and the latest version of Apache if that helps.

 

 

[wildteen88]

How did you install/setup Apache? It is best to install Apache from ubuntu's repos eg:

sudo apt-get install apache2 apache2.2-common apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils

 

This will setup/configure Apache2.2.x for you.

[br0ken]

Thanks for the reply but I'm trying to learn about Apache by manually compiling it. I think this is the best way to learn about the software and will help in optimising it for each different system I use it in.

[corbin]

"optimising it for each different system I use it in."

 

The performance gained by compiling Apache for each system is typically very, very small.

 

 

 

Anyway, how did you compile Apache/PHP, and how have you configured Apache to use PHP?

[br0ken]

It may be small but sometimes clients require it. Also, manually configuring Apache will allow me to learn a lot about it and how it functions.

 

I have not got as far as installing PHP yet. I decided to compile it first and then once everything was working, install PHP.

 

I've compiled Apache multiple times using commands similar to:

 

sudo ./configure --prefix=/etc/httpd \

--enable-so \

--enable-mods-shared=all

 

 

[corbin]

Have you updated iptables to allow incoming port 80 through?

 

 

If you request the page on the server, does it work, or is it messing up locally and remotely?

 

 

(If you don't have wget or lynx or anything, you could always use telnet and HTTP headers to request a page.)