[Xitami] McAfee and Xitami

[Paul Reid]

 > McAfee Firewall, Xitami no longer allows connections.

What Hogan said.

McAfee is set up for normal users. Normal users don't run web-servers.

Port 80 OUTbound is normally open (else you could not surf the web).

Port 80 IN-bound on personal firewalls is normally closed to "new" 
connections (blocks Xitami), but passes replies initiated by an outbound 
request (else you could not surf).

This is old but I bet is still relevant:

http://forums.mcafeehelp.com/showthread.php?t=129441

"I'm using personal firewall plus, 2004 version 5. How can I open port 
80 and port 8080 on this firewall?"

"You can open port 80 by going into utilities, system services, put a 
check on port 80, don't see a way to open port 8080 though." ... "On 
that System Services tab, click the ADD button and add the ports that 
you need open."

Xitami may want 21 (FTP) open. And does it like port 81?

 > I was using ZoneAlarm, no problems with that.

ZA may have figured-out that you had a legitimate webserver, or may have 
asked you the first time port 80 was poked and remembered your answer. 
In the past, ZA was generally smarter about uncommon setups.

-- 
Paul Reid