[ale] Offering services over PPP

[James P. Kinney III]

To add a bit to this:
Check in /etc/ppp for details.

Apache can be setup to listen to only specific address
Listen 192.168.100.1:80

or all address
Listen *:80

You will want the later.

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:24 -0500, John Mills wrote:
> Charles -
> 
> Thanks for pitching in.
> 
> The PPP is a cell-phone dialup. It is "usually ON", but intermittently 
> stopped and restarted. Dynamic IP issues aren't the immediate problem.
> 
> Routing from the device uses local ethernet for a specified subnet and PPP
> as the default. This works for outbound and inbound traffic. Inbound
> connections from PPP also work fine for 'ftp' and 'telnet', but I can't
> open the web server that way. Therefore I suppose I have a server 
> configuration issue.
> 
> I didn't set up the Apache configuration and wondered if there was a 
> setting as to which interfaces it would serve, or some similar setting.
> 
> Firewall hasn't been set up yet, but I expect to do so.
> 
> On Tue, 11 Apr 2006, Charles Shapiro wrote:
> 
> > Are you actually trying to, like, make a dial-up server?
> 
> No - just to offer web pages over the established PPP link.
> 
> > Seems like the only way firewall configuration would be an issue is if
> > you're actually running ipchains or ipfw on the box itself, which you said
> > you're not. If you're sure of your ppp connection, you might want to
> > experiment with the "listen" directive in httpd.conf. What happens if you
> > explicitly set it to the ip address of the ppp connection? Will it respond
> > then?
> 
> I'll try this out. This sounds like the kind of setting I was looking for.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
>  - Mills
> 
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