HTTP POST is dropped before Apache2 logs it ?

[gigamuffin]

Hi
I have two machines on the same subnet.

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     A                           B
  192.168.1.70                192.168.1.84
  HTTP POST ---------------> Running Apache2

Apache2 (on B) can see HTTP requests from a client (on B). So on B, I can run an client to view Apache2 web pages that it serves. Each of these accesses are also logged on /var/log/apache2/access.log.

But, on A, I run a similar client, point it at the IP of B, and it returns with an error says the host can not be found.

However, the HTTP packet from A does get to B (I can see it on tcpdump).

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$ sudo tcpdump -A -n -s0 port 80         
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on wlp2s0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 262144 bytes
15:05:41.374623 IP 192.168.1.70.36118 > 192.168.1.84.80: Flags [S], seq 2475291540, win 65535, options [mss 1460,sackOK,TS val 38919385 ecr 0,nop,wscale 8], length 0
E..</M@.@......F...T...P.............d.........
.Q..........

But it it not logged on /var/log/apache2/access.log.

The firewall ufw is off.

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  $ sudo ufw status        
  Status: inactive

What I don't understand is what is happening to the packet before it gets to Apache2 ?
Any pointers ?

[newlyminted7]

Are you using wireless networks? Are you sure they're on the same one? Make sure one machine isn't on your 2.4Ghz one and the other machine is on the 5Ghz one, for example. Unlikely, I'm sure, but possible.

Are you sure Apache is listening on port 80? Double check your config.

Are you using any software like XAMPP or Local to run your Apache server? If so, ensure that you didn't enable an SSL/TLS certificate somehow, as that would change the port Apache is listening on (443, etc).

What "client" are you using exactly on both machines? A standard web browser?

Are you sure there aren't any other firewalls of any kind running on that machine that Apache is on?

There are a lot of things that you might have set up / configured / misconfigured, from your networknor router settings, to any software you might be trying to run on Apache, such as Wordpress. See this post (https://unix.stackexchange.com/question ... me-network) as it covers a few more things than I have the time to get into right now.

[gigamuffin]

Thank you for reply.

Answer was iptables.

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sudo systemctl stop firewalld

Once this was disabled, then HTTP responses were returned.

Why, if ufw is disabled, does iptables still keep working ??

Anyway, thank you for pushing me to look further.

[newlyminted7]

You're welcome, glad you figured it out.

UFW is apparently just a front end for iptables (https://askubuntu.com/questions/1090122 ... ctly-is-it), so it doesn't control if iptables is running or not (as you found out).