Intranet Setup Help Reqd...

Neophyte · - Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 2

Hi All,

I've installed the free Abyss web server & I'm having nothing but problems setting it up to work in a LAN/Intranet environment only. I don't want or need any external access to or from the Internet to the server - internal network only.

I've tried searching the forum, but the only answers provided relate to setting up an external domain account, port forwarding bla bla.

Here's my scenario, I have five PC's, in a Lan, connected to the internet through a router. Internal IP's are static - 192.168.1.1 thru to .6. One of the PC's (.6) acts as a server for my Intranet.

If I install Analogx, Apache, or LiteWeb, I simply have to point them to the folder where my index.htm & cgi-bin are located & I can access the Intranet by simply typing in http://192.168.1.6/ OR http://mediactc/ (mediactr being the servers name) & voila, the site works.

Apache is OTT for my needs, LiteWeb isn't free & isn't stable, AnalogX doesn't appear to support CGI scripts, although it's supposed to? So I want to give Abyss a go.

As it stands, if I type http://127.0.0.1/ into the browser I can access the site on the mediactr locally, I can also access the Server Console with http://127.0.0.1:9999. If I type http://192.168.1.6/ or http://192.168.1.6:80/ or http://mediactr/ into the media ctr browser, or any other machines browser, I get connection refused? Abyss isn't firewalled from the other PC's - let alone itself??

I can ping each PC from each other using either their IP or PC name, I'm not using a proxy of any sort.

I've not setup any access control or virtual server stuff. The only things I've configured are the paths to my Web base & Perl Interpreter stuff. It's just a plain vanilla install.

All PC's are running XP Pro with all the latest service packs & patch's applied.

I've been through this thread & several others

http://www.aprelium.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3806

Any help appreciated.

aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

Neophyte,

Can you please send to support@aprelium.com your abyss.conf and persist.data as well as your log/access.log files? Do not forget to add a reference to this forum message.
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Neophyte · - Joined: 24 Mar 2005 Posts: 2

@aprelium

Sorted it! After an afternoon of trawling through the forum I found a reference that said the server couldn't be "bound" to an IP, or something like that. Anyhow, when I checked the abyss.conf there was this entry

aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

Neophyte,

The clean way to change this setting (without manually changing the abyss.conf file) is to open the console, press "Configure" in the "Hosts" table, select General, then press "Edit" in front of "Advanced Parameters", and set "Bind to IP address" to *. Press OK twice and restart the server.

This parameter is usually used when you want to restrict the server to a single network interface only. * means that you allow it to listen on all the network interfaces you have (which is the default and the recommended setting).
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