Hutch,
When you use the external IP address, are you testing that from the
inside of the network or the outside?
It kind out sounds like you are testing from the inside in which case I
recommend you test from a PC on the outside.
Brandon
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of William Hutchison
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 8:29 PM
To: web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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
