I need to ask a general question about installing certain packages and the need to make iptable adjustments in centOS; When I installed the apache package and put a simple test page in /var/www/html, it didn't want to pull up until I actually went to the ipTables and added a line to open port 80. I have the same problem now with setting up ftp & vsftpd. They are being more stubborn though. I've added port 20 and 21 to the iptables and I was still getting refused. I stopped the iptables and was able to get FileZilla to connect.
One of my coworkers told me that I should not even have to do this. That just installing the packages should take care of all the configuration settings. Is he right? Is centOS6.4 still so new that it has bugs?
I have reviewed a few docs on setting up vsftpd but they vary.
help appreciated.
Here is my output from the iptables:
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- any any anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp
0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- any any anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp-data
0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- any any anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:https
6 725 ACCEPT tcp -- any any anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:http
20 1376 ACCEPT all -- any any anywhere anywhere state
RELATED,ESTABLISHED
0 0 ACCEPT icmp -- any any anywhere anywhere
0 0 ACCEPT all -- lo any anywhere anywhere
0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- any any anywhere anywhere state NEW tcp dpt:ssh
557 91720 REJECT all -- any any anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
0 0 REJECT all -- any any anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited
Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 18 packets, 3833 bytes)
pkts bytes target prot opt in out source destination
0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- any any anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp-data
0 0 ACCEPT tcp -- any any anywhere anywhere tcp dpt:ftp