Questions of Allowing External Access to Apache Web Server

It should be easy, but it has taken me days without any luck.

I am using RedHat Fedora with tomcat apache 4.1.31. I can access my web server from the machine itself with URL http://localhost.localdomain/.

The problem is: if I go to an external machine and try to access the web server with http://mymachine.com, I get "out of time" error message – the website is not accessi ble.

I have a us robotics router with firewall rules mapping wan port 80 to the local web server machine port 80.

I tried removing all entries in hosts.allow and hosts.deny, no luck.

What else could be wrong?

Your help will be highly appreciated!!!