Nginx works on my linux machine but is not accessible from other computers in my local network

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Published on 2013-07-01T09:37:27Z Indexed on 2013/07/01 10:23 UTC
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In my LAN network I have a server with Scientific Linux (RedHat or Fedora based distro), I've done yum install nginx but the welcome page is not accessible from other computers in my network.

When I do telnet open localhost 80 and then GET / HTTP/1.0 I get some html code from nginx, so it's running for sure. But when I want to connect remotly, doing telnet open 192.168.3.130 80 I get:

Trying 192.168.3.130...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: No route to host

So I assume that there is something wrong with my network settings, maybe iptables or something else?

Next step, I turned off iptables: service iptables stop and it helped, now I can connect remotely using telnet.

So I think, I need to fix my iptables rules. I did some googling and found this rule -A INPUT -m state --state NEW -m tcp -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT but it still didn't allow me to connect remotely when iptables is up.

Can someone please help me setting a proper iptables configuration?

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