hi i installed from the new server 5.10 iso today on an smp amd mp 1200 box destained to take over serving my mess of eBay pix to the web. my only other experience with apache1 has been a knoppix install that "just worked"... where i didn't learn much. here's what works. the box is in my dmz network (<a href="http://10.42.43.0">10.42.43.0</a>). i can wget to it from my inside net (<a href="http://10.42.42.0">10.42.42.0</a>) and get back anything i want. but i can't use my browser to get anything. (nor, i discover, can i get anything off my existing server with a browser... never tried before.) the existing server (<a href="http://10.42.43.100">10.42.43.100</a>) is working fine serving up my pix. i tried just swapping ethernet cables (using same ip) and it did not serve pix so i changed its ip (<a href="http://10.42.43.101">10.42.43.101</a>) and cableled it up to the dmz net. i have code in my floppyfirewall config that passes packets from the inside net to the dmz and in reverse: # Accepting packets between Inside and DMZ iptables -A FORWARD -s ${INSIDE_NETWORK}/${INSIDE_NETMASK} -d ${DMZ_NETWORK}/${DMZ_NETMASK} -j ACCEPT iptables -A FORWARD -s ${DMZ_NETWORK}/${DMZ_NETMASK} -d ${INSIDE_NETWORK}/${INSIDE_NETMASK} -j ACCEPT # Accepting web traffic iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -d ${SERVER_IP} --dport 80 -o ${DMZ_DEVICE} -j ACCEPT #iptables -A FORWARD -p tcp -d ${SERVER1_IP} --dport 80 -o ${DMZ_DEVICE} -j ACCEPT # Forwarding web traffic iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -d ${OUTSIDE_IP} --dport 80 -j DNAT --to ${SERVER_IP}:80 #iptables -A PREROUTING -t nat -p tcp -d ${OUTSIDE_IP2} --dport 80 -j DNAT --to ${SERVER1_IP}:80 does someone spot something here that would prohibit an inside network browser from working onto the dmz? i presume that wget uses apache2 to get the stuff from the server. and it sez it is using port 80. lab64:~/floppyfw2> wget <a href="http://10.42.43.101/">http://10.42.43.101/</a> --17:34:51-- <a href="http://10.42.43.101/">http://10.42.43.101/</a> => `index.html' Connecting to <a href="http://10.42.43.101:80">10.42.43.101:80</a>... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1,457 [text/html] 100%[=================================================================================>] 1,457 7.30K/s 17:34:51 (7.29 KB/s) - `index.html' saved [1,457/1,457] so apache2 is working on the new server. so what is preventing firefox from connecting? (<a href="http://10.42.43.101/">http://10.42.43.101/</a>) or other permutations. thanks very much. dave -- Dave Mallery, K5EN (ubuntu linux 5.10) PO Box 520 .~. _ Ramah, NM 87321 /V\ -o) no gates... /( )\ /\\ running Debian GNU/Linux no windows! ^^^^^ _\_v free at last! linux counter #64628 SCO delenda est <a href="http://www.stores.ebay.com/davessurpluscables/">www.stores.ebay.com/davessurpluscables/</a>