New Website Automatically Times out for Users

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[skeezmo]

I am just starting out with apache because I am in need of a website. I asked one of my friends in another state if he could connect to my site. I gave him my ip address: ,<snipped>, and he said that it timed out. repeatedly.

Then I asked someone from my own state and still it continued to time out.

I havent changed any settings in the httpd.conf file, and I am using the windows version.

Thanks in advance!

[edited by: mack at 5:03 pm (utc) on Dec. 30, 2004]
[edit reason] removed specifics [/edit]

[CaseyRyan]

Well I can ping it.

However, I cannot telnet to port 80 on that ip address. So, either your webserver is offline or port 80 is not open to that ip address.

-=casey=-

[bunltd]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, skeezmo.

It could be that your isp doesn't allow you to run a web server and has blocked port 80.

LisaB

[skeezmo]

I will talk to them online asap, but if they do block port 80 how can I get around it, IE change the port...

I can access it perfectly on my own machines, 3 all networked together, using a DLINK DI604 router.

[skeezmo]

I just talked with an instant answers thing my webserver has, not a real person though, ill talk to them as well. This is what I found out:

Port: 80
Transport: TCP
Protocol: HTTP
Direction: Inbound
Reason for Filtering: Web servers, worms

That is from my webserver.

So what exactly does this mean?

[skeezmo]

how can I change the default port, for people to connect to my webserver?

EDIT:

I noticed in the httpd.conf and my httpd.default, there is this section:

# Listen: Allows you to bind Apache to specific IP addresses and/or
# ports, instead of the default. See also the <VirtualHost>
# directive.
#
# Change this to Listen on specific IP addresses as shown below to
# prevent Apache from glomming onto all bound IP addresses (0.0.0.0)
#
#Listen 68.230.59.188:80
Listen 80

If I change Listen 80 to something else like Listen 96 or some other port that my webserver is not blocking, would it not have a timeout?

I would change the port forwarding for my router as well..

[skeezmo]

I changed the listen 80 to listen 81 in both of the conf docs. And other people say that now they can connect to my website.

Thanks to all!

[mack]

are the people who are connecting using ip.add.re.ss:81 (or other port number)or are they just using op address?

Mack.