The server is running, I see several instances of httpd running under user apache. When I try to point my browser to "localhost", I get:
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost.
I get the same result for 127.0.0.1 of course.
I do know that I have a firewall running, but I am not sure if that is the problem or not.
As root, execute something like netstat -lap and check whether httpd is indeed listening on port 80. If it is, maybe for some reason it does not listen on all interfaces. Check the configuration then and see what interface(s) it bounds to.
Thank you dejan.
I am just getting old and slow. Turns out I had explicitly configured httpd to listen on a non-standard port (8008) rather than good old port 80. But that was a year ago, and I forgot. The netstat thing displayed the problem immediately.
Just to make it explicit, I had made the change in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf, and saved a backup :
> diff httpd.conf.save.0 httpd.conf 42c42 < Listen 80 --- > Listen 8008
Add a TCP exception to your firewall on port 80 and issue a restart command to your web server. Then attempt to connect (check documentation for your server software). If you still can not connect then you know it is not your firewall.
Asked: 2015-03-07 20:20:46 -0600
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You should check
systemctl status httpd,journalctl -u httpd,/var/log/httpd/access_logand/var/log/httpd/error_log. Update your answer with the relevant bits (not an overwhelming amount, please :) and we'll help interpret them. The firewall doesn't restrict localhost access, unless you've made a special effort.> systemctl status httpd * httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled) Active: active (running) since Sat 2015-03-07 21:36:07 EST; 21h ago Process: 4890 ExecReload=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -k graceful (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS) Main PID: 1002 (httpd) Status: "Total requests: 0; Idle/Busy workers 100/0;Requests/sec: 0; Bytes served/sec: 0 B/sec" CGroup: /system.slice/httpd.service |-1002 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND |-4903 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND |-4904 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND |-4905 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND |-4906 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND `-4907 /usr/sbin/httpd -DFOREGROUND > journalctl -u httpd ... -- Reboot -- Jan 13 20:05:31 markdesk.localdomain systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server... Jan 13 20:05:40 markdesk.localdomain systemd[1]: Started The Apache HTTP Server. Jan 16 20:10:20 markdesk.localdomain systemd[1]: Stopped The Apache HTTP Server. -- Reboot -- Jan 16 ...(more)No obvious clues here... did you put something in /etc/httpd/conf.d/ that should be working?