Sounds to me like you have a port forwarding issue with the Actiontec
router. You should not need to make ANY changes to Tomcat to make this
happen. You DO need to probably make changes in the router settings
though to port forward 80 or 8080.
Is the default tcpip gateway set on the PC that's forwarding ? Default
gateway needs to point to the router or it will not port forward. If
you're using DHCP for IP address assignment the default gateway on the
PC should already be set.
If all else fails, go to Best Buy and get a Linksys router :-) Don't
give up, you're close !!
Regards,
Richard Schoen
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message: 4
date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:29:22 -0600
from: "William Hutchison" <whutchi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: [WEB400] getting tomcat to respond from internet
I'm having a problem getting Tomcat 6.0.16 to work as a standalone
internet server. It's running behind an Actiontec router. It works
perfectly inside the network. I tried the preconfigured version of
Tomcat that sets its port to 80, after having tried doing the same thing
manually in the server.xml. The router is set to forward ports 80 and
443 to the computer's fixed internal IP address. I've tried with the
firewall both off and on.
I have a nicely working servlet and a hello.jsp at webapps/SpeechServer.
Everything works great from inside the network. If I put the address
http://127.0.0.1/SpeechServer or
http://192.168.0.10/SpeechServer in a
browser, it opens the hello.jsp at that location. But if I put the
external IP in (e.g.
http://71.212.221.216/SpeechServer), Firefox gives
me a 404 not found error. Putting in
http://71.212.221.216 brings up the
router, as one might expect (I might have thought the router would
forward that request to the server, since it's http on port 80, but then
how would one ever reconfigure the router?). I've also tried having the
router forward the port 8080 (its default) to the local server address,
then putting in
http://71.212.221.216:8080/SpeechServer, but that fails,
too.
I know lots of people are successfully using Tomcat as an internet
server as I'd like to. I've done everything that has been given in
various instructions on the web for setting up Tomcat for this purpose,
but it's not working. What else could be wrong?
Thanks!
Hutch
midrange.com
