I'm behind a proxy which I believe is the reason I can't get through.... at least that's what I thought.

 

I entered the proxy settings in

/var/www/oa/sites/default/settings.php

still no luck

 

Then I realized that by running sestatus it shows it is enforced and probably blocking port 8080 which is where the proxy is so I changed sestatus to disabled by editing the following and rebooting the system

/etc/sysconfig/selinux

still no luck

 

Still checking

Odd but what I did to troubleshoot was install tcpdump (yum -y install tcpdump) then I watched for any proxy traffic by running

tcpdump -D (to find what interfaces I have)

tcpdump -i eth0 dst proxyIPaddress

 

This showed no traffic going to the proxy even with the hardcoded settings in /var/www/oa/sites/default/settings.php

 

I install http_proxy module and it did pull in the settings that was hardcoded in the settings.php and began working. (very strange)