[SOLVED] [Ubuntu 10.04] Can't connect to web server on non-80

[littlebigman]

Hello

I'm having the same issue when using different browsers on the same client, and even trying from a different client: A web server running on Ubuntu works fine when listening to requests on TCP80 but is not reachable when configured to listen on eg. TCP8787:

# netstat -nat
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address           Foreign Address         State      
tcp6       0      0 :::8787                 :::*                    LISTEN

I have the same issue when using Nginx or Cherokee, so I suspect there's something in Ubuntu that triggers this.

Has someone seen this and knows what to do?

Thank you for any hint.

[coopstah13]

i assume you are including the port when you are trying to connect to the server?

Other than that, it seems to be listening using ipv6 for some reason.

[zombykillah]

Are you writing what protocol the browser has to use?
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for example ... without "http://" your browser won't connect.

What's your installed web-server? apache?

[littlebigman]

Thanks guys for the help. I made sure I typed the whole thing "http://192.168.0.8:8787/index.php" but I still couldn't connect, from two different hosts.

For some reason, it worked at some point, and I have no idea why :-/