I am trying to run the example from the spring guide : Building a RESTful Web Service .
It works well if I open localhost:8080/greeting.
But it cannot make connection if I open either 192.168.1.111:8080/greeting, or 140.112.134.22:8080/greeting instead, despite both IPs are actually used by my computer on the internet.
Could someone suggest me how to configure the embedded Tomcat in Spring to accept HTTP request on other IP addresses, besides localhost(that is, 127.0.0.1)?
Thanks! :)
In order to specify a which IP you want Tomcat to bind too, I believe you can simply add the following to your application.properties:
server.address=<your_ip>
server.port=<your_port>
Replacing <your_ip>
with the IP address you want it to listen on. This, and other basic properties, can be found in the Spring Boot Reference Guide, Appendix A.
The other way to configure the embedded Tomcat is to create a custom configurer in code by implementing the EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer
interface. You can read more about this in the Spring Boot Reference Guide, Section 55.5-55.8.
I solved this setting the IP address in the /etc/hosts file in this way:
IP hostmane
Like:
172.x.x.x my-hostname