Can't access Tomcat using IP address

Question

I'm running a Tomcat 5.5 instance (port 8089) on Windows 7.

The server runs correctly if I open http://localhost:8089/ but it gives me an error (Connection refused) on http://192.168.1.100:8089/

I thought it was a firewall issue, so I disabled it, but I still have no luck.

Answer 1

You need allow ip based access for tomcat in server.xml, by default its disabled. Open server.xml search for "

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"             connectionTimeout="20000"             URIEncoding="UTF-8"            redirectPort="8443" /> 

Here add a new attribute useIPVHosts="true" so it looks like this,

<Connector port="8080" protocol="HTTP/1.1"             connectionTimeout="20000"             URIEncoding="UTF-8"            redirectPort="8443"            useIPVHosts="true" /> 

Now restart tomcat, it should work

Answer 2

You need to make Tomcat listen to 192.168.1.100 address also.

If you want it to listen to all interfaces (IP-s) just remove "address=" from Connector string in your configuration file and restart Tomcat.

Or just use your IP to listen to that address address=192.168.1.100 in the Connector string