Follwing the steps as outlined here: Standalone web service
I created a test web service that works great on my local machine. Since this is 'stand alone' I copied the same root folder on to a 'server' that I use and published the service on the server (as if it is my local machine). When I access the wsdl using localhost as the domain name, it works fine on the server. However, when I try the url from a different macihne on the network giving the server's domain name instead of localhost, I get a 'can not be displayed' error in IE.
My question is, should this even be possible? Or is there anything specific that needs to be done. Since this is a 'stand alone' solution, we should not require 'another' container like tomcat correct?
To be honest, until your post, I had no idea there was a builtin, lightweight, HTTP Server in the JDK. I've always used glassfish for my web service needs.
I can't say for sure, but if you look closely at the example code you'll see:
Endpoint endpoint = Endpoint.publish("http://localhost:8080/calculator", calculator);
I suspect that this limits you to "localhost" as opposed to the host machine. Try changing it so that it represents the name of the server and try again from another machine (naturally making sure it can get through the firewall as well). Something like:
Endpoint endpoint = Endpoint.publish("http://myserver:8080/calculator", calculator);
Rebuild it and try again. Other than that, you'd need to create a proper war file and deploy to glassfish, tomcat, etc.
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I have a spring boot application (Spring Web) which has a tomcat server embedded into it (maven dependency). The application is a server and consists of several HTTP routes. This application is on my laptop. I would like to execute the application on my laptop, and be able to RESTful calls (e.g. GET, POST etc) to the server. How can I make requests to the server from my computer?
I've checked out several tutorials and they tend to use XAMP or another similar application so not sure on how to go about this. Thank you.
Once your war is deployed on your server, you can send any REST call to it using curl, a browser, or my personal favorite for testing is Postman as it circumvents cross-domain issues.
To make the REST call simply use the IP address of the server instead of localhost. You can get the IP address of the machine using ifconfig or whatsmyip.org
http://<IP address>/...
I have a few applications hosted on Tomcat running a machine called test-websites throuhg port 8080. So they are accessible like this:
http://test-websites:8080/app1/
http://test-websites:8080/app2/
...
http://test-websites:8080/appN/
What I need to do is make these applications accessible on my local network by:
http://app1.test-websites/
http://app2.test-websites/
...
http://appN.test-websites/
As I add new applications to Tomcat's webapps folder, I want them to be automatically available using the same subdomain pattern.
So I thought using Apache in front of Tomcat to make the URL rewriting would be a good idea, but so far I have not been able to configure the virtual host on Apache to make this redirect. I installed apache2 on port 80 and I see the default "It Works!" apache page when I access http://test-websites/, but I couldn't find how to make the redirects to the apps in the Tomcat following the format above.
I have searched for over 4 hours and didn't get an answer for this use case.. any help us much appreciated!
Thank you!
Eduardo
First you need to add a DNS entry for app1.test-websites, app2.test-websites,.. such that it points to test-websites. Generally CNAME entry works best in this case. If you only need the URLs to resolve on your local machine (for testing purpose), you can just update your /etc/hosts or C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file. Otherwise you need to figure out how your company's network is setup and change the DNS entry (if it's a Windows domain network, normally there's a DNS service on the domain controller. On some smaller network you have to configure it on the router).
Next, the quickest way to achieve this is to not use apache2 to front it, bust simply have tomcat listening on port 80. You can setup virtual host on tomcat such that it serves different web-app depending on the URL requested.
I looked for solutions on SO for this but none of them seem to apply to my case. So here goes:
I have an application that needs to make a service call to a third party domain. I am using jersey client to make this service call. The code for making this call is
ClientResponse resp = resourceWithParams.
header("Authorization", getAccessKeyId() + ":" +
hmacSha1.toUpperCase()).
post(ClientResponse.class,"");
where resourceWithParams is the jersey web resource. Note that even though its is a POST, the web service is expecting a query string and empty body. It might be questionable design but that is what we have to work with.
This setup is working just fine on my local machine as well as on our preprod server. However on our production servers it gives an exception:
com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientHandlerException: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused
There are a couple of points below that might be helpful in pointing me in the right direction:
1) We get a valid response when we use curl on the prod server command line to send a request to the web service so seems like there are no firewall issues. This is happening only when we try it through the web application, i.e. through the java code using jersey client.
2) There are no proxies set up on the prod servers
3) Works fine from localhost.
4) The Rest webservice uses https and the correct certificates are installed on our server which is proved by the fact that curling the webservice on prod works fine.
Any ideas on what the issue might be and where we should start looking?
EDIT:
As mentioned we were using https to connect to the webservice. If we use http instead, it does seem to be working.
I suggest you set up a tcpdump session to see where the connection refused is coming from. In particular, see what the source IP and destination IP addresses are, for both the successful connections and the unsuccessful ones.
There are two possibilities the above is designed to test for:
You say you're not using proxy servers, but Java actually has a separate proxy configuration from the rest of the system, so it may be that your Java is configured to use a non-functional proxy server.
Your Java system could be sending requests using a different source IP address to the one that your curl is using.
I have deployed a webservice on my local jboss server which runs on port 9090. So my webservice url will be http://localhost:9090/app/Services/blah. I have written a mobile client code(for blackberry) which connects to this url to get the data. Initially the client code when run on a bb simulator threw HTTP 403 error. Found that addressing urls as localhost won't work on a bb simulator ( on a simualtor localhost refers to the MDS? ).
So I tried accessing the local jboss server using http://127.0.0.1:9090 , http://machinename:9090/, http://ipaddress:9090 and nothing works. All these urls throw HTTP 501(Service unavailable) which is weird. Can someone tell me what is wrong with this and what is the correct way to access the server?
http://machinename:9090/, http://ipaddress:9090 -> These urls are not even working when i try directly on a desktop browser. FYI, its a windows machine. Do I have to change any nw settings on my machine.?
chedine,
I am not good at bb. But, can you please ensure that your App Server is up & running? Can you access the JMX-Console screen of JBoss in your desktop browser - ie. http://a.b.c.d:9090/jmx-console or something similar. Only if the app server is up, we can dig further into this issue. Please let us know the result.
I have a simple web service deployed on tomcat using Apache Axis.
If i access the webservice as http://localhost:8080/webservices/TransactionService i see the usual message
TransactionService
Hi there, this is an AXIS service!
Perhaps there will be a form for invoking the service here...
showing that the web service is available and ready for use.
However if i access it as http://10.0.0.1:8080/webservices/TransactionService (10.0.0.1 is the actual IP of the machine. I'm accessing it on the same machine as above, machine hosting tomcat) i get:
HTTP Status 404 - /webservices/TransactionService
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
type: Status report
message: /webservices/TransactionService
description: The requested resource (/webservices/TransactionService) is not available.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Apache Tomcat/5.5
There is nothing in the tomcat logs
If i try deploying on Jetty it all works fine.
Is there any explanation for this? Any pointers most welcome.
Tomcat can listen on different hostnames/IPs in a different way. Specifically, every host/IP can have its own work directory:
<Host name="localhost" workDir="/workdir">
...
</Host>
Application deployed to one workdir won't be available to a host with another workdir.
Check your configuration.
UPDATE: if name is specified as name, not IP, check that that name is resolved to 10.* address too.
Also, one of the hosts is default. It responds to all requests now matter what host they are targeted too, if there is no specific Host. For your setup you may want to leave only that one active.
I don't think a change to Tomcat configuration is the answer. I don't have to do such a thing to use my local IP address or localhost.
Could it be as simple as an addition to your hosts file? I've got mine in c:/windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts, and there's an entry for "127.0.0.1 localhost" in it.