I thought I had a network problem. I wish I had looked
here first, but I wasn’t that clever. Maybe someone can comment on how to cross-reference this to aid me and others in future searches and postings.
Wow that was easy!<
I logged into WordPress on the Fedora 8 server. Under the dashboard Options>General I changed the URL from http://localhost/wordpress to http://web.mydomain.local/wordpress and all is well. I wish I had not gone down the rabbit trail of looking in Apache Config files.