help needed opening a port

[LordStanley]

hey guys, i did a search for open ports but it didnt help me. What i want to od is open port 80 so i can use apache. i have pmfirewall installed on my box(redhat 6.2)i reconfigured it and said yes for running a web server on port 80, but now how do i open the port??? i've read abunch of posts and they say uncomment it from the /etc/inetd.conf file ........but thats is where my problem starts. I dont have an httpd entry in that file???? should i have one there or do i need to put one in??? I can access my web page from the intranet within my house but the outside world cant get it.

i have httpd running. I have been looking but i cant find where port 80 is. I have portsentry running also.

[ndelo]

If httpd is running and PM firewall is allowing connections to port 80, then its open, you don't need to do anything. By default it should not be commented out in /etc/services and will exist in there. Try doing a a /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd restart, just to make sure Apache is up and running. Then type you ip address in your web browser and see if you get the default Apache web page. If so, 80 is open.

[LordStanley]

my isp is verizon and i'm assigned an address via dchp. Do you think that has anything to do with it? i can port scan my box at home from my pc at work and have my ip from work show up in the logs for portsentry but when i put the ip address in a browser it says unabale to access or web page not found what ever it says. i uninstalled pmfirewall and reinstalled with port 80 being open and i still cant connect.

Any more ideas??