Question

I want to publish my JSP project on the Internet from my PC using Tomcat web server.
How can I do that?

Answer 1

Here’s how I would do it.

I would go to dyndns.org and get a
free, contrived host name and DNS
entry.

I would set up the dyndns agent on my
machine to keep the IP up to date.

These 2 steps will give you a an “internet host name” that anyone can look up.

Then I would configure my DSL router’s firewall to let through port 80 from the outside.

Now, you have a live port 80 “on the internet”. (Mind, this assumes your ISP lets you do this.)

Now, you install Tomcat on your machine, and configure it to use port 80.

Then you drop your WAR in to Tomcats /webapps and fire up Tomcat, and your app is now published on the public internet.

When you’re done, make sure that you close down port 80 on your firewall.

If you want to use another port (8080, say), that’s fine to, same process, just a different port.

I have done this in the past and it has worked a peach for me with my ISP and router.

Edit –

I should note that odds are high that you will not be able to access your own server via this host name, since you are on the “inside” of your routers firewall. The ROUTER is the device with the actual external IP, not your machine. You machine has something like 10.0.0.x for an IP. You can still access your local server via localhost, however