Tomcat7 -- running, listening, can't hit port

[muaddib]

I am trying to get an installation of Tomcat7 up and running on my linux VPS.
I believe everything has been installed correctly.
I am able to launch the startup.sh without incident within the catalina log files.
The server reports that it has successfully started within xx ms.
netstat shows that tomcat is listening on port 8082 (mod'ed server.xml for troubleshooting purposes) and 8009 for https.

tcp 0 0 :::80 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::8880 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::8082 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::53 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::21 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::443 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::8443 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::993 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::995 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 ::ffff:127.0.0.1:8005 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::8009 :::* LISTEN
tcp 0 0 :::106 :::* LISTEN

I have set my firewall to allow all (for ts purposes) in/out traffic.
I can successfully telnet to the machine (of course, on port 22)

BUT, I can't hit the default index page when I navigate to the VPS port:
http://myipaddress:8082 or http://myipaddress:8082/index.jsp

I am not having much luck troubleshooting beyond this point. Does anyone have some ideas that I may try in an effort to resolve this issue and get Tomcat7 up and running?

Thanks in advance!!
Muad'Dib

[quietFinn]

Did you try:
telnet myipaddress 8082

[muaddib]

Thanks queitFinn, but I think I found what the issue is. It seems that despite opening the ports in the firewall through the Parallel Infrastructure Manager (Plesk), it doesn't seem to be working.

When I issue the command to stop the firewall service, I can get to the server!


Question now, is how do I open the port? I tried adding an INPUT statement in iptables but it gets rebuilt with each re/start of the firewall. In addition, even if I reload the iptables without restarting the firewall the following statement doesn't seem to expose the port:

-A INPUT -p tcp --dport 8082 -j ACCEPT

Can anyone help with the proper steps for opening the port permanently?

Thanks in advance, again!!!
Muad'Dib

[GatorLhebert]

Hello,

Thank you for working with us on this issue, many of our servers come with a custom firewall. This is separate and different from the one you will find within virtuozzo, this system is designed in a such a way that a restart of the service will restore all of the rules whether you use iptables-save or not. I have updated the rules on your server wich should allow access to the ports you have listed.

$ telnet x.x.x.x 8080
Trying x.x.x.x...
Connected to x.x.x.x-static.reverse.softlayer.com (x.x.x.x).
Escape character is '^]'.

$telnet x.x.x.x 8009
Trying x.x.x.x...
Connected to x.x.x.x-static.reverse.softlayer.com (x.x.x.x).
Escape character is '^]'.

[muaddib]

Thanks, GatorLherbert! and everyone else that offered up help!

--Muad'Dib