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soopadoubled
Asked: 2010-03-31 08:21:14 +0800 CST

Can't get port based virtual hosts working in Apache2.2 CentOS 5.2, Plesk 8.6

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I have installed Google Sitemap Generator on my CentOS server, which is running plesk 8.6.

Google Sitemap Generator adds an include to an external conf in my httpd.conf as follows:

Listen 8181
NameVirtualHost *:8181
<VirtualHost *:8181>
DocumentRoot "/usr/local/google-sitemap-generator/admin-console"
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/usr/local/google-sitemap-generator/admin-console/cgi-bin/"

 <Directory "/usr/local/google-sitemap-generator/admin-console">
    Allow from all
    Options ExecCGI
    DirectoryIndex index.html
  </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

LoadModule google_sitemap_generator_module /usr/local/google-sitemap-generator/lib/mod_sitemap.so

After installation I should be able to navigate to myserverip:8181 and access the GSG console. Unfortunately my browser throws up "Safari can’t open the page “http://myserverip:8181/” because the server where this page is located isn’t responding."

I've checked the port with netstat and nmap, and it's open and listening. I've added a rule to allow traffic on 8181 in iptables, but no joy.

Is there anything obvious I could be missing?

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Ian

centos apache-2.2 virtualhost

3 Answers

  1. Does everything look OK in the error log? If not, follow the steps below.

    First, check locally on the server:

    $ nc localhost 8181

    Then check using your external IP, but still from the server:

    $ nc myserverip 8181

    If that all worked (and it should have), check from your remote computer:

    nc myserverip 8181

    Does that work? If not, there might be a firewall somewhere between your computer and your server disallowing access to that port. It might be your ISP blockin outgoing connections to 8181, or your hosting provider blocking incoming connection to that (or all non-standard) port(s).

    If you were able to connect, send some HTTP requests, either using netcat (or telnet) again, or a tool like wget, curl, GET, HEAD (not head), ... If you get a 500 error, check Apache's error log.

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  2. Best Answer

    Thanks for everyones input.

    It turns out that my VPS provider operates a firewall on the VPS containers.

    By some massive fluke, any previous services I had configured (including SSH) I had set on some of the few ports open on their firewall.

    I had never considered another firewall to be the issue, having successfully used (by sheer luck) 'random' ports in the past.

    Thanks again for your time,

    Ian

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  3. Sorry for obvious question but did you restart/reload Apache? On the command line of the server is apache listening on the port? ( netstat -tupan | grep 8181 )

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