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Publishing a site with Tomcat

I am working on an open source project that written in Java.
I am using Tomcat server,Mysql and Java,
with writing
http://localhost:8080/Projectname,
I can run this project
But I must open this project to other users,
I have a constatnt Id, I have done it with using IIS before many times.
How can I do it with Tomcat server,
Is there anyone who has experince on this matter
Thanks for your helping

You Should replace localhost with your IP and check firewall exception for this 8080 port.

How to debug a jar remotely from netbeans

I'm trying to figure out how to debug my jar that is running remotely. Here is my scenario:
My .jar will be running from a VPS. This jar basically runs a server
for a game, so it also connects to a mysql db. I start the server with 3 .bat files that looks something like this:
set CLASSPATH=.;dist\aries.jar;dist\mina-core.jar;dist\slf4j-api.jar;dist\slf4j-jdk14.jar;dist\mysql-connector-java-bin.jar
java -Xmx500m -Dwzpath=wz\ -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStore=filename.keystore -Djavax.net.ssl.keyStorePassword=passwd -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStore=filename.keystore -Djavax.net.ssl.trustStorePassword=passwd net.world.WorldServer
pause
What I want to do is start the server on the vps like normal, but debugging the server on my local machine via Netbeans IDE. I don't know if this is possible because people will be connecting to the server (although, I will be debugging a test server which will only have me online).
Note: I have done a lot of searching before coming here and a lot of what I found had to do with using xdebug & php which has doesn't have much to do with my situation (I don't think)
-Thanks

There's a NetBeans FAQ page about this.
In brief:
Add the remote debugging options to your Java command. For example:
-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,server=y,address=8888,suspend=n
Then, use the attach debugger option in NetBeans and select your server and the port you used above (8888). It's pretty much that easy.
You may want to think about network and firewall considerations, as you may have noticed there are no passwords involved, so anyone who can connect to the port can debug your app. This could be a big security risk. Your VPS provider probably has some tools to help with setting up a secure, private connection.

Can't connect to tomcat webservice

So I've been doing a java webservice in Eclipse in which I have launched on a localhost tomcat from Eclipse. This has worked very good as long as I've been connecting to the tomcat started from Eclipse.
However now I want to try deploy it on my tomcat separated from Eclipse but still on localhost. So I exported my web project to a .war file and deployed it with the tomcat manager app. However now I cant reach it from my client any longer. I'm running the tomcat on port 8080, just as my Eclipse tomcat did. BUT I can go to a reasource URL from my web browser and receive proper information, so the service is running(which the manager app is saying as well).
The client is a android device connected to the same network. The service fetches information from a MySQL database on the same machine. This connection worked fine before exporting it to war on my other tomcat
What am I doing wrong here? Just ask if you need any further information!

Ok so after testing I found it strange that I got connection time-outs and not something else. It also took at least 10 seconds before any feedback occurred. Sooo it felt like a firewall problem which indeed it was.
First I needed to portforward the tomcat port in my router to the machine ip that was hosting it. Then I remembered I had Windows firewall on that very machine which was also blocking conenctions on that port. So I allowed connections on tomcat port and BAM! It worked.
Thanks for all your comments, of course I should have thought about opening my ports before coming here.

What is Tomcat Running?

I'm trying to see if a WAR I just built is even running inside of Tomcat (7.0.19). I am deploying to a linux box and so my only two options are the Tomcat admin console (web app) or, hopefully, determining webapp status through the terminal.
I already know how to get in through the console web app; I am wondering if there is any way to see the status (ACTIVE/INACTIVE/TERMINATED, etc) of deployed web apps from the terminal.
Thanks in advance.

PSI-Probe is a great application for monitoring your applications deployed to a tomcat instance. It will tell you if an application is running or down. If the application is not deployed, it will simply not be in the list.

curl --user user:pass http://localhost:8080/manager/text/list
It prints
OK - Listed applications for virtual host localhost
/manager:running:0:manager
/docs:running:0:docs
/examples:running:0:examples
/host-manager:running:0:host-manager
/myapp:running:0:myapp
Your user needs the manager-script role. Documentation: Manager App HOW-TO, List_Currently_Deployed_Applications

You can probably do it using JMX.
Find appropriate MBean that shows this information on local tomcat using regular JConsole. If you want to connect JConsole to remote you will probably have some problems with firewall, so you have other solution.
Take command line JMX client and run it on the monitored host through SSH terminal. I used the following command line JMX client: cmdline-jmxclient-0.10.3.jar

wget http://<username>:<password>#<hostname>:<port>/manager/list -O - -q
(Not sure about Tomcat 7 though)

difficulty setting up apache tomcat

I am trying to install, run and do something with tomcat for the first time.
apache-tomcat-7.0.16-windows-x86
I am running windows 7/firefox 4.0.
My first step is to run tomcat and be able to see some welcome screen on
http://localhost:8080/
I get the error that:
Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost:8080.
I connect to internet by using a data card, if this info is needed at all.
I have also downloaded/installed JDK,struts in the system, but I think the above step doesn't need or clash with these things.

try with
http://127.0.0.1:8080/
http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Tomcat-Tutorial/