Cannot access tomcat 8 using external ip address

Question

I deployed an web app using Tomcat8 listening to TCP-8080 on a Windows 7. It works fine on my internal network.

However, I wanted to access it remotely too, so I searched a little bit for the configurations needed, and did as follows:

1) Created rules to enable traffic on port 8080;

2) Edited the server.xml to add the "address" attribute:

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
           connectionTimeout="20000"
           redirectPort="8443"
           address="0.0.0.0"               />

3) Temporarily disabled the internal firewall on my router.

But I still can't access my application externally. I also tried to disable the Windows firewall entirely, but nothing seems to work.

What can I do now?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 19 '16 at 04:17

you need to forward port from your router to your deployed machine.in router setting option something like "Virtual Servers" or "Forwarding"(depends on router model).

for example if your deployed machine IP is 192.168.0.104 .

ID  Service Port    Internal Port   IP Address      Protocol        
1   8080                    8080    192.168.0.104     TCP

Cannot access tomcat 8 using external ip address

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