Question

I have created a JSP / servlets application running in Tomcat 7. It runs fine on my development machine, and I deployed it as a WAR file to my Windows Server Amazon EC2 instance after installing Tomcat. I can access it locally (localhost:8080 etc) on the EC2 instance, but I cannot access it externally at all. I’ve done the following:

• Set up Elastic IP for the instance
• Open port 8080 in a Security Group

I tried going directly to the root address (i.e. not my application url) and got a default IIS page. So I disabled IIS, thinking it might be getting in Tomcat’s way, but no dice. I’ve searched around a fair bit, and everything I’ve found seems to amount to what I’ve already done. Any suggestions?

++++ EDIT ++++
Never mind. It was Windows firewall. I can’t close the question yet because I’m too new.

Answer 1

This was a Windows firewall issue.