Standalone tomcat 5.5 can't access other than on localhost

Question

Clean install of Tomcat 5.5. I know it's older, but the webapp I am needing does not support newer versions. I can access it just fine using localhost, but I can't get to it from a remote computer. Sends a 404 error. I am really new to this stuff, so if there is something stupid you would not even suggest, please do it anyway. :)

Thanks for any help in advance.

Brian

quanta · Accepted Answer · 2011-08-19T15:29:22.687

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Open the /path/to/tomcat/conf/server.xml file and remove address="127.0.0.1" from <Connector tag:

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
               connectionTimeout="20000" 
               redirectPort="8443" />

EDIT

  netstat -nao | findstr :80

  TCP    0.0.0.0:80             0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       3180
  TCP    0.0.0.0:8009           0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       3180
  TCP    74.208.231.23:80       0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       4
  TCP    127.0.0.1:8005         0.0.0.0:0              LISTENING       3180
  TCP    [::]:80                [::]:0                 LISTENING       3180
  TCP    [::]:8009              [::]:0                 LISTENING       3180

Pay attention to the last column of netstat output. There is a process (PID 4) listen on port 80. Stop all other processes listen on port 80 (Web Development Agent, Microsoft SQL Reporting, ...) and try again.

edited Aug 19 '11 at 15:29

answered Aug 09 '11 at 04:58

quanta

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Here is my current connector tag: – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 05:15
I added in protocol="HTTP/1.1", but that did not change anything. Thanks for the sugesstion, though. – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 05:23
Port 80? Is there anything else listen on that port? Which OS are you running? You access from remote computer inside LAN? Please post the full content of `server.xml`? – quanta Aug 09 '11 at 05:32
The entire content is too big to post, and I don't see an attachments option. Other than the change to port 80, and adding the protocol option, it's the generic server.xml. It was my understanding that 80 was best to run as standalone. OS is Win2K8 R2. Server is hosted, not on LAN. Looks like tomcat has 80 all to itself: Active Connections Proto Local Address Foreign Address State [tomcat5.exe] TCP 0.0.0.0:110 u15728398:0 LISTENING – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 07:12
Corrected post:Active Connections Proto Local Address Foreign Address State TCP 0.0.0.0:25 u15728398:0 LISTENING [MESMTPC.EXE] TCP 0.0.0.0:80 u15728398:0 LISTENING [tomcat5.exe] TCP 0.0.0.0:110 u15728398:0 LISTENING [MEPOPS.EXE] TCP 0.0.0.0:135 u15728398:0 LISTENING – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 07:13
You can copy `server.xml` content, paste to pastebin.com and insert link here. What the `netstat -nao | findstr :80` says? (You should edit the original post to append output to keep formatting) – quanta Aug 09 '11 at 07:28
also, I can't access it from it's own IP address, only localhost and 127.0.0.1 – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 07:47
Here is the link in pasebin. Thanks for the suggestion. http://pastebin.com/GZ8LUGj0 – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 07:50
here is that netstat result: http://pastebin.com/RMs8Ucuq – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 08:00
Sorry, could you please post the content of all the files in `conf/Catalina/localhost/` or run the command `egrep -lr 'allow="localhost"|allow="127\.0\.0\.1"' $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/` to find out all the files including `allow="127.0.0.1"` or `allow="localhost"`. – quanta Aug 09 '11 at 08:31
Here is host-manager.xml: http://pastebin.com/RqpmeTFg – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 08:53
here is manager.xml: http://pastebin.com/u9FMqcCQ – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 08:55
that's all the files – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 08:55
did a quick manual search for 'localhost' and 127.0.0.1 in the conf dir, but didn't see it anywhere. – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 09:07
Is there any firewall on this machine? Can you `telnet` from remote to port 80? – quanta Aug 09 '11 at 09:09
firewall is off, I will check telnet. – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 09:17
Pay attention to the last column of `netstat` output. There is a process (PID 4) listen on port 80. Change Tomcat port to 8080 for example and try again. – quanta Aug 09 '11 at 09:36
I have switched it back to 8080, still the same results. still does not work. here is new netstat. http://pastebin.com/z34q9WAm – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 09:37
Did you restart Tomcat? I don't see port 8080 open. – quanta Aug 09 '11 at 09:42
pretty sure I had already, but I just did it again. – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 09:43
0.0.0.0 means that listen on all interfaces. Go to [canyouseeme](http://canyouseeme.org/) to check for yourself. – quanta Aug 09 '11 at 10:00
it's showing 8080 as blocked... Hmm I don't know why. – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 10:07
but 80 is fine. – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 10:10
_"blocked"_ means that it may have a firewall. If you cannot find out it, you can switch back to port 80 but **remember to stop all other processes listen on port 80 (Web Development Agent, Microsoft SQL Reporting, ...) before doing**. – quanta Aug 09 '11 at 14:52
So, I had to stop the 'Web Deployment Agent Service', and that finally freed up 80. Switched tomcat back to 80, and everything is working fine and dandy! Thank you so much for your help! – Belgarath the Ancient One Aug 09 '11 at 18:58

Standalone tomcat 5.5 can't access other than on localhost

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