tomcat running ,but 8080 port not responding

Question

I have installed sun jdk 1.6 x64 and tomcat in a linux x64 machine through ssh, I don't have root privileges so I installed both in my home dir.

I managed to successful run tomcat but if I try to enter mydomain.com:8080 there's no answer from the server.

With this command:

netstat -atnp|grep LISTEN

I checked the port and it is LISTENING

Dec 18, 2011 5:11:20 PM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: /home2/fiegmund/jdk1.6.0_25/jre/lib/amd64/server:/home2/fiegmund/jdk1.6.0_25/jre/lib/amd64:/home2/fiegmund/jdk1.6.0_25/jre/../lib/amd64:/usr/java/packages/lib/amd64:/usr/lib64:/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:21 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:21 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init
INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:21 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 2015 ms
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:21 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:21 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.23
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:21 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /home2/fiegmund/apache-tomcat-7.0.23/webapps/docs
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:24 PM org.apache.catalina.util.SessionIdGenerator createSecureRandom
INFO: Creation of SecureRandom instance for session ID generation using [SHA1PRNG] took [1,869] milliseconds.
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:24 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /home2/fiegmund/apache-tomcat-7.0.23/webapps/manager
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:24 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /home2/fiegmund/apache-tomcat-7.0.23/webapps/ROOT
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:24 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /home2/fiegmund/apache-tomcat-7.0.23/webapps/examples
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/core is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/sql_rt is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/sql is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/core_rt is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/functions is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/standard/permittedTaglibs is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/standard/scriptfree is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/fmt_rt is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/fmt is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/xml is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/xml_rt is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.TaglibUriRule body
INFO: TLD skipped. URI: http://java.sun.com/jstl/sql is already defined
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
INFO: Deploying web application directory /home2/fiegmund/apache-tomcat-7.0.23/webapps/host-manager
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8080"]
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8009"]
Dec 18, 2011 5:11:25 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 4582 ms>

Any ideas that what is the problem?

Answer 1

First step is to run telnet localhost 8080 when logged in locally. Then type in something like

GET /

and you should get HTML back. If that doesn't work, then tomcat is not really running properly or is not listening on port 8080. If that works but when trying from outside, make sure that you have the correct ip address. Try with ip address first. If ip address works, perhaps your mydomain.com doesn't resolve to it. If ip is correct (the same one you are ssh'ing to) and it still doesn' work, then you are probably running firewall which doesn't allow 8080 through. Changing firewall configuration requires root access.