Saturday, November 6, 2010

Testing httpd using telnet

Using telnet command
(assuming the ip address of your machine is 192.168.106.120 or you can use localhost)

telnet  192.168.106.120  80

Then type "abc" and Enter


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>501 Method Not Implemented</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Method Not Implemented</h1>
<p>a to / not supported.<br />
</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at localhost.localdomain Port 80</address>
</body></html>
Connection closed by foreign host.


Try using telnet again but this time type "GET" then Enter

Different output?

Now open a browser and put 192.168.106.120 as the address

Should see a lot of info (including below)

"...
If you are the website administrator:
You may now add content to the directory /var/www/html/..."


Now go into /var/www/html and create index.html containing this line
Hello from CentOS

Then refresh the page on the browser
(also telnet and see)

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