Posted by Chuck Anderson on 05/03/07 04:53

Toby A Inkster wrote:
> Chuck Anderson wrote:
>
>
>> I can not remember what prevents his (or my) server from being reachable
>> by others on the Internet, and I want to be sure exactly how that
>> security works before I install a server on his machine. What is it that
>> prevents (how do I prevent) outside access? (He and I are both on
>> comcast, btw - always on).
>>
>
> With Apache, you can configure it to listen for requests only on
> particular IP addresses. If you configure it to listen for requests only
> on 127.0.0.1, then nobody should be able to access it non-locally.
>
> A good firewall wouldn't go amiss either.
>
>

Hey, .... I sure do appreciate the help.

I just set
Listen 127.0.0.1:80
Listen 80
in my http.conf and Apache would not Start (I know ... ... this will
very soon have nothing at all to do with Php, but ..... ??)

I used the the port number (:80) because the example in my httpd.conf
did. Listen 80 was already there.

My friend does have a router with a hardware firewall, so I suppose that
will be enough.

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