[Wylug-help] Appalling Zope/Plone performance: what have I missed?

[Jim Jackson]

On Thu, 26 May 2005, Dave Fisher wrote:

> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:21:03PM +0100, Dave Fisher wrote:
>> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 03:04:06PM +0100, felix at chaptereight.com wrote:
>>> Are you saying there's no access from outside whatsoever, or very slow
>>> access?
>>
>> Well, I thought it was ridiculously slow access, but following Jason's
>> pointer to the relevant log files I'm entertaining the possibility that
>> access is being blocked at some point that I haven't yet considered.
>
> Following a bit more investigation and tinkering, I now find that Zope
> is responding on my server's internet-facing interface to requests
> addressed to both its numerical IP address and its domain name, _but_
> only if the request comes from within my home network.
>
> So I'm inclined to think that there is some default access control
> that I need to find and toggle/re-set.
>
> Can anyone save me a bit of time, by sugggesting some likely places to
> look?
>

usual culprits would /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny
and any iptables stuff loaded.

Maybe the web server is configured to only listen on the one interface
instead of to *:80 etc, so the apache config files????

Jim