Using ip address in place of localhost

[Orton K Randy]

The title says it all, I tried to access my webapp through ip, something like :

http://xxx.xxx.xx.xx:8080/mywebapp

It says:

Unable to connect
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:8080.

'course

http://localhost:8080/mywebapp

works just fine.
Obviously, it has something to configure in tomcat conf files, unfortunately I'm not that good at them. Just so you know, I could ping to the IP(without port no. perhaps) in question successfully, firewall has been disabled. Any help would be appreciated in this regard.

[Tim Holloway]

"Ping" isn't a tcp/ip request, it's ICMP. Same transport, different protocol. So the ability to PING an IP address simply means that the PING ICMP packet isn't firewalled, and tells nothing about tcp/ip port blocking.

The first place to look when you have connectivity problems, is to use a "netstat" command. Use "netstat -ln" for Unix/Linux and "netstat -an" for Windows. If the port is being listened to on 0.0.0.0, it's available at other addresses that just localhost and that's your cue to look at the firewall.