[ale] apache wierdness

[Randal Jarrett]

Since the IP address has changed have you made sure that you flushed all
the caches on your browser?


On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 16:46 -0400, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> Scenario:
> 
> apache server behind nat firewall.
> Network changes just occurred.
> Nat reconfigured to accept new external IP and redirect to DMZ apache
> server.
> 
> Situation:
> 
> _partial_ connections. If login to web script with bad user name or
> password, system returns the correct "bad username or password. Login
> failed" error message from the login script.
> 
> Using a good combination, I get no response. It looks like a server hung
> on connect. wget eventually times out. BUT! The person who wrote the app
> on the server connects just fine with the SAME LOGIN THAT FAILS WITH
> ME?!?!?!
> 
> Both of us see the same IP address. No errors in the log files.
> 
> If I try and access a perl script in cgi-bin called printenv with the
> perms set to no execute, I get an apache arror message telling me it
> can't be execute. If the perms are fixed, the server just sits and does
> NOTHING.
> 
> I have never seen something like this before and am comletely perplexed.
> 
> The firewall now has old and new connections on it (i.e. old IP and new
> IP) We are in the process of migrating to a new ISP/data line provider. 
> 
> If everything failed to go through, I could understand it being the
> network change. But some stuff comes through. Static pages don't happen.
> Error messages happen.
> 
> 
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Randal Jarrett  <rsj at logix.net>
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