I have solved my connection problem. For the sake of other newcomers,
I will explain what the problem was. It was an Apache configuration
issue. The server was pre-configured to listen on three ports: 80,
443, and 8228. The 7777 port that is frequently referred to was not
included. It was my belief that since Apache was listening on port 80,
I could connect using http://<my_ip_address>/isqlplus (or simply
http://<my_ip_address>/ to reach the htdocs system). I do not believe
that those requests ever reached my computer, but rather that the
remote browser did a DNS search for a registered domain name which
failed, of course, since I don't have one for my private machine.
Requests of the form http://<my_ip_address>:80/ did not work either; I
believe the browser interprets those as equivalent to the others above.
Requests to http://<my_ip_address>:8228/ did reach the machine and a
connection was opened, but that port, added by isqlplus.conf, is used
for communication between Apache and iSqlPlus and is not available for
http requests (which I did not understand). The solution is to add the
directive LISTEN 7777 to httpd.conf and then to request
http://<my_ip_address>:7777/ for the htdocs or
http://<my_ip_address>:7777/isqlplus . It works perfectly. If I had a
registered domain name, the original requests would have worked.
Received on Sun Mar 05 2006 - 21:40:53 CST
