> How exactly does it fail ? Sorry, it failed with error message stating that it cannot connect to the myweb.com:80;
> nslookup disregards the local "hosts" file > What's with the other nodes' local "hosts" file ? These lines gave me a brain jolt. It's my mistake, as i mapped myweb.com to 127.0.0.1 locally on my laptop, which is why it doesnt use dns to get the public ip. Now that i commented the local mapping in my etc/hosts, everything works great ! Thank you so much for your help ! Warm regards from Jakarta, Albert Kam On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 4:50 PM, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > Albert Kam wrote: > >> I have a case where accessing the webapp within the server box is fine, >> but accessing the webapp from outside the server box using the domain name >> is problematic, but not so using the public ip address, which is >> accessible. >> >> The content of the webapp is just a single index.html, so no JSPs, no >> classes are involved. >> >> - On my web server, which is set for the public domain myweb.com, >> curl http://myweb.com works >> curl http://<public-ip-address> also works >> note : i registered the domain from the domain robot >> >> - On external nodes (not on the web server), i tried to access >> curl http://myweb.com fails >> > > How exactly does it fail ? Doesn't curl have some "verbose" option to > give you the exact failure reason ? > > > But : curl http://<public-ip-address> works >> >> - Both on the web server and external nodes, >> nslookup myweb.com works, and returns the public ip address correctly >> > > Just for info : nslookup disregards the local "hosts" file.. > > > >> - I have even disabled ipv6 in my /etc/hosts and domain mapping >> So my current host file is very simple : >> 127.0.0.1 localhost >> > > Yes, but this concerns only your local host, which was already working > fine, as per your indications above. > What's with the other nodes' local "hosts" file ? > > On the Tomcat host, can you run the following command and paste the output > here ? > > ifconfig -a > > > > > > > >> - Here my output of version.sh >> Using CATALINA_BASE: /usr/share/tomcat7 >> Using CATALINA_HOME: /usr/share/tomcat7 >> Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /usr/share/tomcat7/temp >> Using JRE_HOME: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-oracle >> Using CLASSPATH: >> /usr/share/tomcat7/bin/**bootstrap.jar:/usr/share/** >> tomcat7/bin/tomcat-juli.jar >> Server version: Apache Tomcat/7.0.28 >> Server built: Dec 8 2012 06:51:43 >> Server number: 7.0.28.0 >> OS Name: Linux >> OS Version: 3.2.0-4-amd64 >> Architecture: amd64 >> JVM Version: 1.7.0_25-b15 >> JVM Vendor: Oracle Corporation >> >> - Here's my server.xml >> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> >> >> <Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN"> >> <Listener className="org.apache.**catalina.core.JasperListener" /> >> <Listener >> className="org.apache.**catalina.core.**JreMemoryLeakPreventionListene**r" >> /> >> <Listener >> className="org.apache.**catalina.mbeans.**GlobalResourcesLifecycleListen* >> *er" /> >> <Listener >> className="org.apache.**catalina.core.**ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListe**ner" >> /> >> >> <Service name="Catalina"> >> <Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1" >> connectionTimeout="20000" >> URIEncoding="UTF-8" >> redirectPort="8443" address="<my-public-ip-**address>" /> >> >> <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="myweb.com"> >> <Host name="myweb.com" appBase="webapps" >> unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> >> <Alias>myweb.com</Alias> >> <Valve className="org.apache.**catalina.valves.**AccessLogValve" >> directory="logs" >> prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt" >> pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" /> >> </Host> >> </Engine> >> </Service> >> </Server> >> >> - Here's my ifconfig : >> root@Debian-70-wheezy-64-**minimal:/home/moonblade# ifconfig >> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr d4:3d:7e:d8:ba:27 >> inet addr:<public-ip-address> Bcast:<public-ip-address> >> Mask:255.255.255.224 >> inet6 addr: <public-ip-address-v6>/64 Scope:Link >> inet6 addr: <another-public-ip-address-v6>**/64 Scope:Global >> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 >> RX packets:290094 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:169056 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 >> RX bytes:241176295 (230.0 MiB) TX bytes:27580533 (26.3 MiB) >> Interrupt:43 Base address:0x6000 >> >> lo Link encap:Local Loopback >> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 >> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host >> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 >> RX packets:192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 >> TX packets:192 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 >> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 >> RX bytes:26625 (26.0 KiB) TX bytes:26625 (26.0 KiB) >> >> - no firewall, as the iptables are still empty : >> root@Debian-70-wheezy-64-**minimal:/home/moonblade# iptables -L -n >> Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT) >> target prot opt source destination >> >> Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT) >> target prot opt source destination >> >> Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT) >> target prot opt source destination >> >> - my system >> Linux Debian-70-wheezy-64-minimal 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian >> 3.2.46-1+deb7u1 x86_64 GNU/Linux >> >> Am i missing something in my server.xml ? >> >> >> > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**--------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > users-unsubscribe@tomcat.**apache.org<users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Do not pursue the past. 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