FreeBSD FAQ

I have FreeBSD installed and with it I had couple of issues.

Problem No. 1

When I installed apache using the ports

cd /usr/ports/www/apache21/

make install clean

It had also fetched tcpwrappers which I was not aware of.

When I tried connecting to it locally it wont allow me to connect it says

Connection refused

So I had to add this entry to /etc/hosts.allow

sshd :192.168.0.10: ALLOW

192.168.0.10 is the system from where I am connecting.

Note : By default freeBSD root access through ssh is disabled.

Also make sure your nameserver entries are properly configured in your freebsd.

/etc/resolv.conf

If its able to resolve to external domains.

After adding the above entry I am able to ssh from 192.168.0.10

Problem No. 2

Now its the turn of http... when I try to do a http://192.168.0.10

It says Connection refused ... this was wired since I was using http service for some time now with my freebsd and all was well with it.

The settings in

/usr/local/etc/apache2/httpd.conf

were fine this was Listenning to port 80 on FreeBSD lnc0

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh start

wont start either.

I could see netstat did not show http running.

I tried

/usr/local/sbin/httpd this worked but is not a proper way to start http

After searching forums and IRC, I have added

apache2_enable="YES"

to

/etc/rc.conf

I used apache2 since in rc.d its mentioned

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh


freebsd# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache2.sh start
Starting apache2.

Now the http service is working