Forum OpenACS Q&A: OPENACS Access Problem (Help me to help myself!!)

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1: OPENACS Access Problem (Help me to help myself!!)
Posted by Rob Blake on 03/07/01 05:56 PM
Hi All,

I've been converted to openacs after reading philip and alex's
guide, and have managed to get most of the way through the
installation process on a red hat 6.2 box. I've got postgresql and
aolserver installed, the datamodel loaded and the postgres
driver compiled. I set aolserver to listen to port 8080, and I can
access openacs using lynx on the local machine by pointing it at
localhost:8080. Despite my suprising success to this point, I
cannot access openacs from any other machine on the network.
I did a netstat -a and it shows that port 8080 is indeed open.
There is no firewall or tcp wrappers on the box. What am I doing
wrong?

Sorry if I'm lamely missing the blatantly obvious.....

Thanks very much in advance,

Regards,

Rob ;->

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2: Response to OPENACS Access Problem (Help me to help myself!!) (response to 1)
Posted by Pascal Scheffers on 03/07/01 07:47 PM
Blatantly obvious would be if you had done this in your /home/aolserver/acs3-pg.tcl:

set hostname localhost
set address 127.0.0.1

In which case your Aolserver is hapily serving the loop back device instead of eth0 or something. Aolserver wants to be bound to a specific IP, it will not listen to all your network devices.

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3: Response to OPENACS Access Problem (Help me to help myself!!) (response to 1)
Posted by Rob Blake on 03/08/01 06:08 PM
I hadn't set the server address properly - doh!

Openacs is extremely impressive, and the community is helpful
too.

Thanks Pascal!