Thank you for the reply. I think it's "server", and even though I select that, it is still blocked. I mentioned being able to ping it because I thought it was a NIC problem or something, because apache didn't work when I started it. Thanks agin for the reply! On 4/7/09, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at mac.com> wrote: > David M Lemcoe Jr. wrote: >> Maybe I just haven't installed enough distros, but the times I've >> installed CentOS, I've had to remember that by default, iptables is >> blocking inbound port 80 requests. This leads me to believe that I have a >> non-OS firewall error because I can ping but not http request. >> >> Is there a particular reason for this? Or is it a fail on my end? > > Very few ports are open out of the box. > I'm not sure, but I think if you choose the webserver (or is it server > ??) option at install it might have port 80 open. > > Port 22 is open for ssh. I think 631 (cups) is as well, but not positive. > > You can configure the firewall with system-config-securitylevel-tui > after install (it runs during firstboot as well) where you can easily > tell it to turn on port 80 (and/or 443) for web services. > > pinging a box has nothing to do with ports are blocked, open, or closed. > You can filter pings but I don't believe the firewall does by default. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >