Can't access Tomcat on Unix from another computer

I installed Tomcat 6.0 into Fedora 10. I'm able to 开发者_运维百科see my webapp on browser doing a simple http://localhost:8080/HomeApp from the server computer. I saw that my server computer has an IP of 192.168.1.5 by doing /sbin/ifconfig. So I replaced the localhost with the server IP and it was also working.

However when I go to another computer at home I get "Connection timed out". This is weird because I can actually ping the home server from the client computer successfully.

Anyone knows whats wrong? I'm using this Verizon Fios as my home router with default configurations. Thanks in advance.

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Any application (tomcat in this case) can bind to any address or to a specific address. I guess your tomcat installation is binded to localhost only, that's why you can't access it from another host.

Look for the tomcat/conf/server.xml file and look for some text like:

<Connector 
    port="8080" 
    protocol="HTTP/1.1" 
    address="127.0.0.1"
    ...

If you find the address attribute, remove it and it should bind to every ip addres (i.e. localhost and 192.168.1.5).