Tomcat – Configure an IP address instead of localhost:8080 tomcat eg:192.260.0.2:8080

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Can anyone suggest me how to configure my localhost:8080 in tomcat to connecting to an IP address instead of localhost such that i access my localhost in any system in my workplace… i am using tomcat6 and netbeans 6.9.1

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Your question is ambiguous dude.

If you are asking how you can make the hostname "localhost" resolve to something other than 127.0.0.1 then the answer is:

change the localhost entry in your "/etc/hosts" file, and mess with the network configs, and
DON'T DO IT because you are liable to break things.

If you are asking how to get Tomcat to accept requests on some other IP address, then the answer is to edit the $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml to add or change the relevant <Connector> element. Of course, you can only listen on the configured IP address or addresses of your computer's network interface / interfaces.

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Stop Tomcat.
Empty the work directory.
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Start Tomcat.

See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/host.html#Automatic_Application_Deployment and look for "Multi-level contexts" for further details.

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You might be able to use ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse to proxy some url to 8080, and not do port forwarding.

Get rid of the port forwarding, and create a file in /etc/httpd/conf.d (assuming redhat based linux distro with apache):

ProxyPass /myapp/ http://localhost:8080/
ProxyPassReverse /myapp/ http://localhost:8080/

You can also put path after the http line above if needed.

This basically sets up a reverse proxy, so anything matching the ProxyPass{,Reverse} entries will go to localhost:8080, everything else will get served by the local apache instance.

Obviously if you have a different distro or os or webserver, the above would have to be altered, but the concept is the same.

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