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Web Server Bleg
Geek Alert for this post.
I’m running a web server app on my computer, which I can address by http://localhost:8080/webapp, where “webapp” is the app.
It works fine, but in theory, I should be able to access it from another machine on the network via http://localhostIP:8080/webapp, where “localhostIP” is the IP address of my machine, but I can’t. It just times out.
I’ve even installed Apache on the machine, and I’ve set up a reverse proxy in the Apache config file per the following:
ProxyRequests On
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 192.168
#Set up reverse proxy for Webapp server
ProxyPass /webapp/ http://localhost:8080/webapp/
ProxyPassReverse /webapp/ http://localhost:8080/webapp/
ProxyPreserveHost On
Again, where “webapp” is the actual webserver that I’m trying to access remotely.
When I try to access this from either a remote, or my local machine, by http://localhostIP/webapp, I get the message: “The requested URL /webapp was not found on this server.”
Any Apache gurus who can tell me what the problem might be? I’ve opened up firewall to both http and https.
[Update Friday morning]
Problem solved. As noted in comments, it was a combination of allowed ports and SELinux.
The Bloody Road To Safety
Bill Whittle’s latest Firewall is up. Yours truly is paraphrased.
Treat Every Firearm
…as though it’s loaded. A safety tip.
Is Your Network Safe?
Here’s an interesting article on cracking WPA. Bottom line, WEP is worthless for wireless security, and WPA is pretty good, if you use good passphrases and aren’t a high-value target.
Backslash
Some thoughts from Eugene Volokh. I didn’t know that people were confused on this issue. But it is irritating that Microsoft screwed things up with DOS (as they did many other things).
Restaurant Web Sites
Why are they so awful?
I suspect that some of them have the attitude with regard to posting their prices that, if you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
[Via Geek Press]
Space Elevator Update
Here’s a report from the conference. There are still a lot of issues to work out. The smart money is on (reusable) rockets, in the near term, I think.
A Primer For Rioters In Texas
…but probably not in London. Yet.
It’s an oldie, but worth a read: six non-lethal weapons that you’ll wish had killed you.
More Bloggiversary Celebration
Ed Driscoll writes about ten years of Instapundit. So does Bryan Preston.
My recollections are here, at an interview I did with Pundit Press a few weeks ago:
When and why did you start Transterrestrial Musings?
It was October 2001, a few weeks after 911. But it wasn’t a result of 911 — it was a result of something that fortuitously happened a week or two earlier. Glenn Reynolds had started a blog, and a mutual friend of ours (Jim Bennett, who would later write The Anglosphere Challenge) emailed me with a link, writing, “Hey, look what Glenn is doing.”
A few days later, 911 happened, and the rest is history for his blog, but I saw him doing the kind of “letters to the editor” thing without needing an editor, and said to myself, “I could do that, too.” So I found some blog software (Graymatter), installed it on my server, and I was off to the races. Unfortunately, due to some glitches in software changes/updates over the past decade (frightening to think that it’s coming up on both Glenn’s and my tenth bloggiversary), I’ve lost the very earliest posts, but most of it is still there in one form or another. I’ve been on WordPress for the last two or three years after giving up on Moveable Type.
Interestingly, if you look back through his archives, you’ll note that his posts used to be a lot longer when he first started, because he didn’t have as many outlets for his writing. The same has happened to me over the years. I now only write long blog posts when I don’t think I can place them somewhere else where they’ll find a greater, more appropriate audience (e.g., Pajamas Media, Popular Mechanics). I won’t deny that knowing him before he was Instapundit probably helped me get started, because he was probably more willing to link my stuff in the beginning, but he’s always been very much about introducing new voices to the blogosphere, regardless of whether he knew them or not, if he found them.
And still does, I think. I would also note that before there was the blog, I had been on an email list with Glenn and several other libertarian types (including Bennett). Starting the blog was probably just a natural extension of that.