[SOLVED] Unable to access tomcat using IP address of fedora system(Guest OS in windows7)

[Raju Rudru]

Hello all,

I am new to fedora. Please rectify my mistakes, if i ask any thing wrong.
I have installed fedora 16 as a guest OS in window 7 using Oracle Virtual box. I have installed tomcat in fedora 16. I am able to access it from the local machine (i.e. like localhost:8080), but when i am trying to access it from other computer (i.e. like 192.168.1.6:8080 here 192.168.1.6 is the IP address of the system having fedora 16) it is not accessible.

I am able to ping to the fedora system using its IP (192.168.1.6). But unable to access tomcat from browser.

When i type url 192.168.1.6:8080 in the browser from local (fedora) machine it is working fine. But when i type the same url from another computer in my LAN it is not working.

In my virtual box the adapter it is showing is Bridge Adapter.

And i have found the IP address using the command ifconfig.

When i type ifconfig it showed me the inet address: 192.168.1.6 in P2P1.


I have been struggling in this issue from two days. I have searched the forum but with no luck.

Hope the experts in this form will solve my issue.

Please help me.

Thanks In Advance

[george_toolan]

Please check

netstat -a -n | grep 8080

If your tomcat is just listening on the loopback device you'll have to configure it to listen on all devices.

Did you enable the Fedora firewall which could block connections from other hosts?

Or did you install a windows personal firewall which is blocking outgoing connections?

What's the ip address of your other machines like the windows host?

If it's not 192.168.1.* then you might have to configure the virtual adapter to use nat instead of bridge mode.

[Raju Rudru]

Hi george_toolan,

Thanks for your response, that was really helpful.
I have made changes in firewall, now i am able to access tomcat from other computers in my LAN.

Thank you very much for spending your valuble time to help me.