Hi Guys

For the last few days I've been playing around with a XOOPS installation I did on my webserver with Apache 2. Anyway I've designed a site I'd like to try out in the wide world with some people and I'm having some difficulty.

On the server http://localhost works fine and the site runs like a dream. If I type in my dyndns server address on the server it too returns me to http://localhost so its looping ok.

But if I try to access the site on my firewall or from further afield we get different problems.

On my firewall my site doesn't load when pointed at my local ip address with a reply along the lines of http://blah.com/modules/ams connection refused.

When I switched the site off, the site maintenance sign is there with the log in script but of course this doesn't work refusing connection to user.php

So now I am guessing it to be one of 2 things either an apache permission error or a mainfile.php.xoops configuration problem.

I dont think firewall issues will be what the problem is here...

Any ideas guys??

there's plenty of topics around that cover your problem..

including the FAQ section..

try searching 'localhost'

https://xoops.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=52989&forum=7&post_id=234071#forumpost234071

is 1 topic.

but either way you'll need to edit mainfile.php and replace localhost with your IP address if any1 from the internet should wish to see it.