Accessing TEAMCITY from a remote machine

Question

I am having trouble browsing to my team city(JetBrains) from a remote machine. I have followed the install directions and the install went smoothly. I can browse the to application locally on the server, no problem at all. I changed the default server url in the config file to be http://my servername . I can browse to http://my server name and the application shows up no problem locally. The application is alos installed on the default 80 port of the server with no other web server installed.

If I browse to http://my servername from my laptop on the same domian nothing happens. When I run diagnostics it seems to pick up the webserve but it fails to respond.

As a test I uninstalled the app and installed IIS to see if I could browse to the default IIS page remotely. This worked no problems at all. I uninstalled IIS, ensured nothing was hogging port 80 on the server. Reinstalled the applicaiton, configured it exactly the same, still nothing. The application works fine locally, but I get nothing remotely.

I was just wondering if anybody knows anything else I can try? or is there a setting in tomcat I need to tweak?

Answer 1

Verify that the server is running on port which is not blocked by the firewall. Change the port if necessary.

Tomcat also supports binding to specific IP addresses, in case your machine has multiple IPs, you can configure which one to use in server.xml, like:

<Connector port="80" address="10.10.10.10" protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
           connectionTimeout="20000" 
           redirectPort="8443" />

Where 10.10.10.10 is the IP of the server which can be accessed from the remote machine.

Check the server logs to ensure that it's started on the correct IP/port and is accepting connections.