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I'm setting up a web site on a new install of RHEL 5.7, and running into a problem getting the website domain to resolve correctly.

The changes I've made to httpd.conf are to uncomment the NameVirtualHost so it's 

NameVirtualHost *:80

And uncommented the only VirtualHost entry and changed to read:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin myemail@co.com
    DocumentRoot /var/www/html
    ServerName mydomain.com
    ErrorLog logs/mydomain.com-error_log
    CustomLog logs/mydomain.com-access_log common
</VirtualHost>

That's it.

I'm able to ping the server by the domain, but any http requests cause a server timeout error.

Thanks for any help.

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Is Apache running and listening? (lsof -i -P | grep 80) Is there any firewall in front of the device? – Shane Madden Jan 25 at 20:36
It is. I'm able to access it via the IP with no problem. There is a firewall in front, but I am operating from inside the firewall. – evanmcd Jan 25 at 20:49
So an HTTP request to the IP works? Can you verify that the name resolves to the same IP address that you're sending requests to? – Shane Madden Jan 25 at 20:52
Yeah, when I ping the domain I see that the response is coming from the right IP. – evanmcd Jan 25 at 21:48
Ok, so a request to the IP (http://X.X.X.X/) works, but a request to the name, which resolves to that IP, times out? Is the wrong DNS data cached in your OS or browser? If you telnet example.com 80, does it connect? – Shane Madden Jan 25 at 22:00
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OK, so after a long bit of troubleshooting, it seems that the issue was an internal proxy (PAC) file that was blocking access to the domain - nothing to do with the Apache config at all.

Thanks for the help anyway.

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