[PLUG] Tomcat default home page not accessible for Linux (CENTOS) host

[Shrinand Javadekar]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Rajendra Sakpal
<rajendrasakpal.list at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Friends,
>
> I am accessing Tomcat homepage from a LINUX host deploying CENTOS 5.3.
> Tomcat is deployed on WINDOWS machine.  I could access the TOMCAT homepage
> from WINDOWS host.
>
> The WINDOWS host can be pinged from the CENTOS machine.  The firewalls on
> CENTOS host & WINDOWS host are disabled.
>
> Do let me know if you have any pointers on why the Tomcat home page is not
> accessible from the CENTOS machine.
>
> thanks & regards,
> Rajendra
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I'm no expert on this.. but here's what I think.
Have you made sure that TOMCAT is bound to all interfaces? What does
the netstat -a command give you? It should be something like:

% netstat -na | grep 8080
tcp46      0      0  *.8080                 *.*                    LISTEN
% _

It might be that its only running on localhost:
% netstat -na | grep 8080
tcp4       0      0  127.0.0.1.8080         *.*                    LISTEN
% _