Trouble configuring apache webserver

[simk]

Hello,

I am new to openwrt and i would like to install an apache webserver with drupal and phpmyadmin for my home project. We want it like this our router has our drupal website on a usbstick and people that are connected to the router can reach the drupal website via. ip:port, thats our goal.

We stumbled across this guide https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/services/webserver/http.apache? we followed the guide but we cant reach the webserver after following the first steps(we installed it on the router). We edited the config to Listen 127.0.0.1:81 and to the ip from the router 192.168.8.1:81 but we still can't reach the page.

we also started it with apachectl start.Im using a GL-AR300M.

[trendy]

What is the output of the following command?

netstat -lnp | grep 81

Use preformatted text when posting console output (the </> button).

[simk]

What i did:

i changed the config file and edited the Listen line to:

Listen 127.0.0.1:81

and in the bash shell i wrote:

apachectl start
netstat -lnp | grep 81

and netstat gave me following output.

tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:81            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      28638/httpd

[trendy]

The router cannot respond if you allow only the localhost interface. In the instructions it is mentioned to let it listen to 192.168.1.1 (or whatever you have in your lan).

[simk]

so my config now has

Listen 192.168.8.1:81
Listen 127.0.0.1:81

netstat output:

tcp        9      0 192.168.8.1:81          0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      4612/httpd
tcp        0      0 127.0.0.1:81            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      4612/httpd

do i have to forward a port or change something in the firewall ?

We are clueless at the moment.

[trendy]

@simk

do i have to forward a port or change something in the firewall ?

No, by default the LAN zone allows all incoming traffic. Make sure you didn't change that.

[simk]

So we have reseted our router and we can ping the apache webserver but we can't open it on a browser

[trendy]

You can ping an IP address, not a web server.
You should check your logs why the server is not opening in a browser.
Make sure you use the special port 81 when you enter the address in the browser.

[simk]

i tested it with 192.168.8.1:81/ on chrome and firefox.

So we have a fritzbox router and our GL-AR300M and our GL-AR300M takes the internet from the fritzbox router (so it might inherit the settings) can this be the cause of the problem ?.

[micmac1]

I'm pretty sure apache package on OpenWrt is currently broken. Check the issue tracker on github, for instance issue #4840. I don't know much about web servers, but there are other possibilities in OpenWrt (check docs).