[Resolved] Having a small problem

wytecastl

Recently decided to start hosting a forum on my home box for me and my friends. Running WinXP Pro, grabbed BigApache(Apache2 + PHP4.3.6+MySQL+some other stuff I didn't care about), and the latest version of phpBB2.
Everything seemed to be working right, I could access my pages (both regular html and the forum's .php stuff) just fine from localhost, but people accessing from elsewhere seem to have problems. Html files seem to load just fine, images too. However people have trouble seeing viewing .php files. Sometimes it displays just fine, sometimes it simply displays a blank window. After reloading a couple times it usually will display correctly, but only for a short while. Searched aroung the net awhile, tried a few little things I found, updated to the latest PHP4 (4.3.11 I believe) but the problem persists. I find this very odd as everything works perfectly when viewed from http://localhost/ but others have trouble, but only on .php pages, not the regular html, so I'm fairly sure it isn't Apache. Apache's error log doesn't show anything either.
Can anyone out there help?

bradgrafelman

PHP.net says it themselves; they don't support bundled packages.

Download separate installations for each of the prodcuts from their companies website 😉

Besides, running a webserver from your home connection is against almost all ISP's EUA and can get you terminated! :p

EDIT: I'm also sueing you for copyright infringement. Your website looks EXACTLY LIKE MINE. http://localhost/ <-- THATS MY WEBSITE, YOU COPIED IT!

wytecastl

Okey dokies, full reinstall of Apache2 MySQL and PHP, seperately this time. Not getting any error messages this time anyway. Somebody give it a poke at http://lsevil.servebeer.com and tell me if it's going right, since I can't really tell from here.

PS: I don't think my ISP minds, they even post instructions on their website on how to enable port-forwarding to host sites.

bradgrafelman

Lucky you.

Page seems to load fine. Forums are 404, though.

wytecastl

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It's nice that the page works and all, but I was more worried about the forums...
I think it's fixed now, I hope (I've only said that like 8 times since I've started this now ;_😉.

If that forum link still doesn't work, the right page SHOULD be at http://lsevil.servebeer.com/phpBB2/index.php

wytecastl

I happened to read somewhere that phpBB2 sometimes has problems with Apache2, so I switched over to Apache1.3, and it appears to be working better. Also ditched that front html page, so if http://lsevil.servebeer.com/index.php is working for everyone, I should be good to go... I hope

bradgrafelman

Looks like you have some missing image files, or posted from a different version of phpBB?

On this page, for example, there are broken images, including your avatar.

wytecastl

I know about those, I didn't get the avatars when I backed up the database from the old server and restored it here. Not sure why my avatar is down, but I'm not worried about that. If you can see the forum, I'm a happy camper 🙂