Day 12 Apache Port 5000 Task Failing Even After Service Running

KodeKloud Engineer
#1

Hi Team,

I am working on Day 12 Apache task where Apache should be reachable on port 5000 on stapp03.

I verified:

  • httpd service is active
  • Apache is listening on *:5000
  • curl localhost:5000 works on stapp03
  • telnet stapp03 5000 works from jump host
  • SELinux is disabled
  • firewall-cmd and iptables commands are unavailable

But task validation is still failing.

Commands output:

sudo ss -tulnp | grep 5000
tcp LISTEN 0 511 *:5000 : users:((“httpd”…))

Could someone guide what configuration might still be missing?

#2

The port and the affected server is randomized, but for the port specified in the problem description, you need to do three things:

  • Find out which server is not responding on that port out of stapp01, stapp02 and stapp03.
  • Go to that server and make sure there is nothing else grabbing that port. You can do that with netstat or lsof.
  • Make sure that iptables is configured to allow access on that port.

Do that, and you will pass.