Tomcat 4.0 Connection failed for external users

[aod8]

Hi all,

I have developed a web interface which is a combination of JSP's, servlets and java beans. I developed it in JBuilder. When i run my application i can access the login page through

http://x.x.x.x:8080/Home.jsp,

where x.x.x.x is my public address. However for some strange reason when I try to access this link from outside my internal network, the connection just times out. Basically it can't find my server. But my server is on a public IP address which should be viewable on the Internet shouldnt it?

I thought it might be the settings in JBuilder so when I went to Project -> Project properties -> Run. I could then see the server and chose edit. I could see that I am running Tomcat 4.0. The hostname was 'localhost' and the port 8080. So I thought maybe if I changed localhost to my IP address that it might make a difference. It didn't. I also changed the port in case that was it and that also didnt help.

Does anyone have any ideas? Has anyone experienced something similar?

Many thanks.

 

[sedj]

Its almost certainly your firewall blocking access to the port.

Try telnetting to the port to see if it is really open, and/or check your firewall settings.

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