How to access a REST api deployed on tomcat from a different system on the network

[Puspender Tanwar]

Hi Ranchers,
Is there any way I can access a REST api developed using spring-boot and deployed on embedded Tomcat, from a different system(mobile/pc) on the same network?
I tried below application.properties options, but they didn't help

server.address=127.0.0.1
server.port=8080

[Rob Spoor]

Remove server.address. That line tells Spring Boot to only listen on the local interface, which means that any request from any other machine will be rejected (connection refused).

[Puspender Tanwar]

Rob Spoor wrote:Remove server.address. That line tells Spring Boot to only listen on the local interface, which means that any request from any other machine will be rejected (connection refused).

Earlier was not using these parameters, I wrote them after googling the issue
Anyway, I would need to get the local IP address of my system on the network. Now I can access that IP from other systems.

[Rob Spoor]

0.0.0.0 should allow you to connect from any machine to any interface. Its the generic "listen on all interfaces" IP address.