Re: The state of firewall management...

[Graham Lyon <graham lyon gmail com>]

Why should I have to edit the httpd config? What if I want it to be available on my LAN at home so that I can test it in IE or Safari from other machines (or from a VM)? Also, that was a single use case - I can think of many more.

2009/6/23 Patryk Zawadzki <patrys pld-linux org>

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 7:23 PM, Graham Lyon<graham lyon gmail com> wrote:
> Ah, but what if I wanted to sit in my local coffee shop doing some
> development work on my website (apache running on my local machine) but
> wanted to use their public wifi to access docs etc online. I want myself to
> have access to my apache server but I want to prevent others in the coffee
> shop from also having access.

Just make your http server only bind to lo interface :)

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Patryk Zawadzki