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[mkokadwar]

Hi,

I have a windows VPS and installed tomcat with an application on its root folder.

From the VPS itself, If I access the application using localhost:8080 it gets displayed in the browser properly. But if I put the ip address like 74.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080, browser throws connection timeout error.

From my local machine as well, it displays the same error. Interestingly if I ping the ip address from my local machine, it replies.

What could be the error? Do I need to configure the ip somewhere on the VPS so that it points to the tomcat root application (localhost:8080)?

Thanks in advance

[lynxus]

Check your firewall ?
Id also check my webserver config and ensure that it is bound to my ip address?
IE: LISTEN 100.200.100.200 8080

Then id check my vservers, ensure that my virtual servers have mydomain in them?

[Askforhost-AJ]

Firewall is causing problem i think

[Ashley Merrick]

Never used tomcat, however sounds like tomcat config is set to bind to localhost instead of a certain ip or all connections to that port.

For example like in httpd.conf

Listen 127.0.0.1:80
vs
Listen *:80