Access web server on LAN using IP fail

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2014-07
  • July

    I have a web server in my LAN with IP: 192.168.1.103, I can only access the web server from browser in this computer through http://localhost:8080, I cannot access it through 192.168.1.103:8080, nor can I access it through other computer on the LAN.

    Could anyone shed some light on how to solve this?

    • Answers
  • arielnmz

    Make shure your firewall is not blocking the port 8080. The default por for html is 80 so maybe you've that configuration wrong. Also, can the other computers in the LAN ping to that IP?

  • barlop

    I suppose perhaps you have simply bound your web server to your 127 address rather than your 192 address or the 0.0.0.0 address which allows any connections even outside your lan (though a firewall can secure it).

    if you do netstat -aon you'll see 127.0.0.1

    look for your particular web server, how to bind it to the correct address. If it showed up in netstat -aon as 0.0.0.0 then your problem should be solved. I think if it's bound to a 192 address that might work too for the rest of your LAN.


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  • kobaltz

    When you say that you can connect to it from the LAN, are you on that machine or a different computer? If you're on that machine, then it could be that your apache config file is listening to port 80 only on 127.0.0.1 (loopback). If you're able to see it from another computer, check and make sure that your firewall/router is pointing port 80 to that server's local IP.