RE: can't telnet to port 80

["Allen,Andrew R.(NXI)" <Andrew Allen cna com>]

Telnet is typically port 23.  http is typically 80 or 8080.  If you cannot
get in, it is probably because your web server (apache?) is not configured
(nor possible, I think) to accept telnet traffic on port 80.  
For more info, check out your /etc/services file.  It gives the default
ports for stuff.  

what you probably want is to telnet (just use telnet machine_name ((don't
use the port))), and then use your id and password that you normally login
in with.  Then cd to where your document_root is if you want to modify web
server stuff. 

I don't reccomend having a nobody account allowed for ftp, nor anonymous.
There are other emails flying on how to configure those.  I usually use
linuxconf to configure this kind of stuff.
Andrew Allen

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Lo [mailto:markloky netvigator com]
Sent: Sunday, May 14, 2000 6:15 AM
To: redhat-install-list redhat com
Subject: can't telnet to port 80


Hi,

      I have installed my apache under Redhat Linux 6.0, I wonder why
can't I telnet to port 80.  Is it a default security issues.  Also, my
web server is running as nobody for both user name and group name, and I
have a program which lets my user to upload the file into the
directories, so the user and the group 's file and directory must be set
to nobody as well,  I think this is a very insecure, because people can
always get in to my server by using the above user name and password.
So what is the security issues do i have to concern in the case.  Any
suggestions is helpful !!

Thanks

Mark


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