The access to my web application running Windows 2008 Server on localhost is fast; however, when I tried to access the web application through another PC (exp: http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xx:8080/appname) is takes about one minute to load a simple login page. Any input regarding this matter is much appreciated.
Further information, the firewall is already off and the setup within a LAN environment without Internet access.
With this little information it is almost impossible to debug your situation. However, I'll take a guess based on what you've provided.
If you're running on an internal LAN, the problem is likely that you don't have reverse DNS configured for your server. Your server has some made-up name for which only forward-DNS exists. When Tomcat receives a request it tries to look up the hostname based on the IP address, and this can take a long time to time-out.
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We have written (in Go and Delphi) several Windows microservices, which respond to HTTP requests on specific ports in the 11000-12000 range. These are designed to run internally within the Domain or Private network of the client (i.e. not on the internet).
They run perfectly on all but one of our 50+ client systems, on OS's ranging from Windows 7/10/11 to Windows Server 2008R2/2012/2016/2019. The installation process for each of these services sets up rules in the Windows firewall to accept the requests to each service exe.
The one client system that they dont work on is running Windows Server 2016 Essentials. This is the only client system running that specific OS, so that may be a factor in the problem.
Even locally using a web browser on that system to query the services they dont work. The requests just wait for a while and then timeout: ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT.
However the same requests to the same ports at address 127.0.0.1 (localhost) work instantly - proving the services are actually running.
The mode of failure when the targeted service is not running, or if we address the wrong port, is different. In that case we get a quick "refused to connect" failure: ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
There are no third party antivirus or firewall products installed on the system, which is only using Windows Defender with the normal Windows firewall. We've tried everything we can think of with the Windows firewall, including turning it off completely. Nothing we've tried made any difference.
We've tried using many alternative port numbers, but we dont get any success until we get up to the 49000 range and above, but we'd really rather not have to change from our normal port number range unless its completely unavoidable.
We've spent many hours trying to find any solution without any luck. We are really hoping that some bright person out there has some idea that will lead to finding the cause of the problem.
I have recently installed PHP, MySQL Server, and Apache web server. I played around with some PHP scripts locally on the PC to insert some entries to MySQL Database.
Noob question so please be patient with me:
How do I get my web service out to the internet, by self hosting? Say I already have a domain for example mydomain.com How do I make it so that when someone not within my network can access mydomain.com/something and can send some data so my server gets it and do anything with that data?
Webhosting
You have to have some form of webhosting. You pay for hosting and you can upload your PHP files to their servers. They will usually also have database servers you can use.
Your domain name has to point to those servers via DNS so the internet can reach your application. I'd suggest you search the internet for popular hosts that provide the tools your need for this.
Self hosting
Another possibility is to open your network up to the world, but this is not recommended unless you have network administration experience due the security trouble that comes with it.
In short: forward a port through your router to the machine running your application. The website portforward.com has instructions on how to do this but keep in mind that misconfiguration could lead to vulnerabilities in your network.
In order to make you site public
1. you need host
2. you need domain
there are bunch of hosting sites you should get one first.
This link explains very well about self hosting
https://www.boutell.com/newfaq/creating/hostmyown.html
I've been asked to put together a Tomcat webserver on a Windows server that can host numerous instances of an application for our development, UAT, training and sandboxes systems. We had them all running on one instance of Tomcat 7 however that was causing the application to crash due to the number of them running and made it hard to update just one environment without bringing them all down. These sites are all internal use only and not public facing so we are using short DNS names to reach the sites.
What I am planning to do now is have multiple sessions that are started using batch files which is working apart from the fact that to reach the sites I have use the full IP, port number and directory name. If I try to access the sites using the short name it displays the main Tomcat sessions default page (running on port 80).
What I am hoping to do is have it so when we use the short name it redirects to the correct session (example below using 127.0.0.1 as an example IP address)
Typing site1 should redirect to 127.0.0.1:8081/site1
Typing site2 should redirect to 127.0.0.1:8081/site2
Typing site3 should redirect to 127.0.0.1:8082/site3
I have have few projects that I'm holding on one of my VPS from DigitalOcean. In order to keep them up even my VPS may come down, I bought another VPS from DigitalOcean with idea to sync the projects on both server, so if the main goes down the second will take the lead.
So I set a Cronjob, on the second server, that is checking the projects state on the main, and in case the response is negative, using the DigitalOcean API I change the domain A record to to direct to the second server, until the problem on the main server is not fixed.
I was afraid that the IP propagation will take too much time, but it seems to do it very fast.
Instead there is another problem. It seems the computer is caching the IP address, so it still direct to the main server.
I tested this with few computers and with service like HideMyAss.
Question: Is there a way I can tell from my server to the client that the IP is changed or to not cache my IP?
Thank you
I have a strange problem, I just installed my php web site on a shared hosting, all services were working fine. But after configuring my app I just could visit my web site only once, other attempts gives:
"The server is taking too long to respond.".
But from other IP i can access, but only once, it seems all ip addressess beeing blocked after first visit(even ftp and other services get down, no access at all from the IP), can anyone help to explore this problem ? I don't think that it's my app problem, the app works fine on my local PC.
Thanks.
First thing to try would be a traceroute to determine where your traffic is being blocked.
In a windows command prompt:
tracert www.yoursharedhostingserver.com
At the moment, trying to access this address gives this:
Fatal error: Class 'mainController'
not found in
/home/myicms/public_html/core/application/crApplication.class.php
on line 181
I have tried it multiple times and it didn't block me. It might be that You have already solved this problem.
As far as I know, the behavior described by You could only be explained by a badly configured intelligent firewall. It may have been misconfigured by Your host.
If You visit a site at a certain host and suddenly You cannot access an ftp on this host, then it's either a (really bad) firewall or a (very mean) site that explicitly adds a firewall rule to ignore that address.
Some things that You might look into:
It might be something with identd too. What was the service You have configured on Your host? Was it by any chance any kind of server-controll panel (that might have an ability to controll a firewall)?
Is the blockade permanent, or does it go off after 24h, or does it only go off after rebooting the server? Does restarting some services makes the blockade go off?
Did You install any software that "protects Your server from portscanning"? It might be a bit too aggressive.
I wish You good luck in finding a source of this problem!
Chances are that if you can access it once that its actually working. The problem is more than likely in the php code than in the server.