I'm developing a Grails application to a school work. Typically, this is the URL for any server running on a local machine:
http://localhost:8080/ProjectName
After I run tomcat server with my Grails project, I go to that location and I can acess the website. But, as far as I know, everyone in my LAN should be able to load the website from same URL (http://localhost:8080/ProjectName). As I have two computers on same lan via router, I tried to acess my website and it doesnt seems to be working. How can access the application from another computer? If possible, suggest a website that I can read and learn stuff about this matter, cause my lack of knowledge about servers is so dramatic.
If you want your local development instance to be available to other machines on your network, start grails like this:
grails -Dgrails.server.host=0.0.0.0 run-app
Then you can get your own IP address from ipconfig or ifconfig as described in another answer. You can then access your application from another machine. Make sure your local firewall is not blocking 8080 (or whatever other port you've decided to start grails on)
You need to use your machine's hostname or IP to access it from another machine.
You can get this information from a command prompt:
Windows
C:\>hostname
yourhostname
C:\>ipconfig
...
IPv4 Address. . . . . . . . . . . : 192.168.x.x
Linux (usually)
$ hostname
yourhostname
$ ifconfig
...
inet.addr:192.168.x.x
You can use either of those to get to it from another machine, e.g.
http://yourhostname:8080/YourApplication
or
http://192.168.x.x:8080/YourApplication
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I've developed a Grails application and I want my coworkers to be able to test it. They are on my network so I figure they can access it by using my IP address and the port number (8080). I've tried running it according to the steps laid out here and here to no avail.
I noticed that whenever I run the program, even when I follow those instructions, it says:
Grails application running at http://localhost:8080 in environment: development
Basic networking stuff here.
When something starts on interface 127.0.0.1 port something
Usually that port is then available for all the interfaces on the machine
if you run netstat -plant you will see running ports open on the machine.
Basically what ever ipconfig or ifconfig tells under Linux as your internal interface something like 192.168.1.x
The app is then available on http://192.168.1.x:8080
If you can't access it from other machines on network start by trying to ping {your machine ip}
It sounds like network security stopping local access from 1 machine accessing another.
Or even better still your good old MS firewall try stopping your security stuff on your desktop
It's not clear if you can access the app yourself on your own machine? It should be available at:
http://localhost:8080/appname
Your co-workers should be able to access the app by changing localhost to your computer name:
http://mycomputername:8080/appname
I'm running a Windows 7 VirtualBox on my Ubuntu 13.10 machine where I have my rails app. I access my rails app through subdomains (i.e. subdomain1.lvh.me:3000) and I'm trying to access these same subdomains through my VB. I've read to change the host file but I haven't been able to make it work. Would I be using the Gateway IP or the IPv4 address?
The reason for me trying to accomplish this is to develop on my Ubuntu machine and test for IE issues on my VB without using paid third party websites to render my changes.
I think that if, for example, your ubuntu machine's ip address is 192.168.0.123, then it should suffice to have this line in your windows hosts file
192.168.0.123 subdomain1.lvh.me subdomain2.lvh.me subdomain3.lvh.me
Then on your windows vb you would access subdomain1.lvh.me:3000 like you say.
Have you done this? I don't know what you mean by " I've read to change the host file but I haven't been able to make it work. " What isn't working?
I am developing a grails webapp and used SOAP to publish my web service using
Endpoint.publish("http://localhost:8080/XYZ", new XYZ());
When I am accessing this service from my local machine then it works fine but when I try to access it through different computer using my machine IP address instead of localhost, it does not show anything.
I have allowed the port through firewall as well but still no success.
Can anyone tell me the reason and how to solve this?
By default embedded tomcat server will listen on localhost. You will have to explicitely bind it to the ip address.
Try this, and see if works
$grails -Dserver.host=192.168.1.100 run-app
Or
$grails -Dserver.host=192.168.1.100 run-war
Using WEBrick you could navigate to an app you were serving from another device/virtual machine by navigating to your.ip.address.here:port
Is it possible to do something similar with pow.cx?
The latest version of Pow (0.4.0) now includes xip.io support. You can read about the release here.
Here's a quick explanation of how this helps Pow serve your Rails apps across your entire local network, from their post:
Say your development computer’s LAN IP address is 10.0.0.1. With the
new version of Pow, you can now access your app at
http://myapp.10.0.0.1.xip.io/. And xip.io supports wildcard DNS, so
any and all subdomains of 10.0.0.1.xip.io resolve too.
Here's a description of xip.io, from their site:
xip.io runs a custom DNS server on the public Internet. When your
computer looks up a xip.io domain, the xip.io DNS server extracts the
IP address from the domain and sends it back in the response.
There are basically two options:
Don't use pow: run your applications on localhost as usual and access them as usual
Edit the hosts file (or local DNS) to point your server machine ip
Example accessing from a virtual windows machine:
Suppose you are running two rails applications in pow: store.dev and auth.dev, and you want to access them from a windows xp virtual machine to test them with IE, you only need to edit your hosts file to add the lines:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
# Allow to access applications in pow.
# The ip address points to the host machine localhost, that usually is the default gateway
10.0.2.2 store.dev
10.0.2.2 auth.dev
And then open the IE browser to access your applications in http://store.dev and http://auth.dev respectivelly.
Specifically, no, because Pow uses the Host header of the request to determine which app you need to access. To get that working remotely, you would have to have the remote machine map the required domain name to your IP address - either with a local DNS server or by editing the HOSTS file. Both of which are possible but annoying.
The simplest thing to do in that case is to start up a standalone Rails server as you mentioned (using ./script/server or rails s depending on the version), and then you can address http://[ip address]:3000 as before.
In other words, Pow works because it intercepts your local domain resolution, something that isn't affected by (or available to) remote machines.
I have a Ruby on Rails application that I'm developing on my computer, which runs Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. I'd like to be able to access it from a remote computer for testing purposes. I've no idea how to proceed. Do I need to set up port forwarding? Virtual hosts? Can anyone point me to an article/tutorial/whatever that has information about how to do this?
Thanks!
If you want to run it using the server script, you can have it listen to a specific IP address like:
script/server -b 192.168.1.5
Substitute your machine's IP address that is accessible over your network. Then other hosts can get to the Rails app via e.g. http://192.168.1.5:3000.
If you mean you're behind a firewall or NAT gateway, then the question of how people outside of your firewall/NAT can get to your machine is another question entirely... something that probably belongs on superuser.com.
The best way I've found is to use http://www.tunnlr.com.