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Can't connect remotely to new Alfresco installation

phonon — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:22:56 GMT

Hi, I've just installed Alfresco on a CentOS 4.4 (Red Hat ES) server. I can connect on the server to http://127.0.0.1:8080/alfresco, which pops up correctly, but when I try to connect remotely http://208.109.232.184:8080/alfrescoit doesn't work (times out). I should mention that I installed remotel

Re: Can't connect remotely to new Alfresco installation

steve — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 10:54:10 GMT

Hi,

Have you opened all the required ports on your machines firewall to enable external access?

Steve

Re: Can't connect remotely to new Alfresco installation

phonon — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:46:43 GMT

I opened ports 8080-8089 on my client computer's router to forward to me (which I then checked with a internet port checker), and still nothing. I put the actual server IP address in the original post, so you can check if you'd like. It's just a test server, it will be erased once I get everything set satisfactorily.) As a follow up question, assuming I get it to work at all over the internet, can Alfresco be put on port 80, or any other way that doesn't require forwarding ports? I'm hoping to have unsophisticated users.

Re: Can't connect remotely to new Alfresco installation

steve — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:50:35 GMT

Hi,

If you have nothing else running on port 80 you can configure Tomcat to run on this port.
Take a look at the Tomcat server docs for how to do this.

(a quick google resulted in this website that contains some good info on how to do this: http://www.klawitter.de/tomcat80.html)

Hope this helps,

Steve

Re: Can't connect remotely to new Alfresco installation

phonon — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 15:56:54 GMT

Thanks so much for the quick reply, but before I start messing around with the tomcat ports, I'd like to find out why it doesn't work over port 8080 through the internet. Do you have any suggestions?

Re: Can't connect remotely to new Alfresco installation

phonon — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 04:10:29 GMT

I went to a tomcat forum,and they straightened me out, perhaps this will be of use to others.
According to them–

your redhat/centos server is blocking port 8080, you must open that port up.
or better, proxy through your httpd server

in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf add the following lines

ProxyRequests Off
ProxyPass /alfresco http://localhost:8080/alfresco
ProxyPassReverse /alfresco http://localhost:8080/alfresco
ProxyPreserveHost On

Restart httpd "/etc/init.d/httpd restart"
then access your app
http://208.109.232.184/alfresco