Re: help with localhost please.

[Rod R. <ro...@su...>]

Wayne wrote:

> If I cd into /usr/local/Apache/htdoc and enter the command
> "netscape index.html.en ", the page that comes up
> informs me that apache is installed okay.


That's just going to run netscape on a local file.  The web
server would not be involved.

> As for the
> running of apache, the ps -ax command informs
> me that the httpd is running.
> What next?


It may be that apache is not configured to listen to localhost.
Check your httpd.conf to see if it's only binding to the external
IP address, or to a nonstandard port number.

-- Rod
    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/