first web server help 1

[bluepixie]

Hi,
I am running Tomcat on my pc and I can't seem to view my web page when I try my local ip (but I can view it from localhost in the browser). My friends haven't been able to view it with my ip or domain from their locations outside the network. I have my files (just jsp and html to start) in my root folder (C:\Tomcat_4_1\webapps\ROOT). I have opened up port 80 on my linksys to point to my local static ip. My DSL company alows port 80 traffic and I have a static routable ip through them. DNS is fine. I have zone alarm, will disable it temporarily but hope to have it allow web traffic too. What else do I need to do or am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!

 

[sedj]

Tomcat runs (by default) on port 8080 - but of course its possible to make it run on port 80 - have you changed the port ot runs on ?

Can you "ping" your PC from outside the network ?

 

[bluepixie]

My friend successfully pinged my public ip. Also the logs on my linksys show him attempting to access. I don't think he got to the server at all though. Also, I can't find the https.conf file to change settings from localhost to my domain. I think this may be a problem. Am I supposed to have this file or does this version have a different place to add domain information?
Thanks!

 

[sedj]

https.conf sounds like an Apache web server file - not a Tomcat file - are you using apache to redirect dynamic requests to tomcat ? If so, have you mounted the appropriarte URL patterns (JKMount) from apache to tomcat in the httpd.conf (not https.conf) file ?

You still have not said what port tomcat is listening on (the 8080 vs. 80 thing) - what is the url you are to hit ? Do you specify the precise port ?

 

[bluepixie]

Hi,
Tomcat has many config files it seems. in the server.conf file it seems as though the main port is 8080. I have done searchs for JKMount and httpd.conf files and can't find them. I must be missing something.
thanks

 

[sedj]

So you are not using Apache http web server ?
When you say "server.conf" do you mean "server.xml" in the conf directory ?

If you have tomcat listening on port 8080, then of course you won't be able to access it on port 80 ...

what is the URL you are trying to hit ? Is it :

[URL unfurl="true"]http://192.168.3.133:8080[/URL]

?

(where your IP can be got from "ipconfig" in the command line.

 

[bluepixie]

wow, thanks. I never appended the :8080 on the end of the ip before and my site appeared. At least the answer was something simple!! Now I just need to make sure that outside viewers can see my page.

 

[sedj]

You can start tomcat on port 80 by changing the value in server.xml from 8080 to 80 (Just do a search and replace on all occurances in server.xml). Then you can access your site with

http://localhost

(because browser's default port is 80)

 

[bluepixie]

Thanks, that was the ticket! I changed all occurances and then it worked.