Cannot connect to Tomcat server from outside network

I cannot connect to my Apache Tomcat server from outside network.

I can do a localhost:8080 from a browser and it returns a page. I can also use the internal and public ip addresses and it works - from same pc..i.e. same network.

But when I do public_ip:8080 from a different network - it doesn't connect.

I believe I've set port forwarding correctly - I can see it in the logs.

Is there a TOMCAT setting to allow connections from outside network?

1 Answer

I changed the Tomcat server port to 8081 and it worked!

Not sure why 8080 wasn't working.