JBoss starts up but port 8080 not working in web browser

[ianfeldberg]

Hi all. We're in the process of upgrading our neglected J2EE application, running in JBoss 3.2.6, to a more modern version. I got it working in JBoss 4.0.5 but then realized I needed at least JBoss 4.2.3 to run EJB3. When I installed JBoss 4.2.3 and started it up (without my application's ear file) it seems to work and I get the proper printlns to the console that tell me that port 8080 is working, such as:

    21:24:33,393 INFO   [Http11Protocol] Starting Coyote AJP/1.3 on http:127.0.0.1-8080

But when I try to open http://localhost:8080/ in Firefox I get a "Failed to Connect" screen. It works fine in JBoss 3.2.6 and 4.0.5 but not JBoss 4.2.3. I then tried installing and running JBoss 5.1.0, 6.1.0 and 7.1.0 and they all do the same thing! I've tried all of them on Redhat 4.6 and 5.4 - same problem! I see no errors in the boot.log or server.log files.

I've tried all these things to no avail:

- set JAVA_HOME and PATH correctly to use Java 1.5.0_09

- set JBOSS_HOME and PATH to where JBoss is located

- started run.sh with the all and standard server configurations instead of "default"

- tried going to localhost:8080, 127.0.0.1:8080, and <the actual ip of the machine>:8080 in Firefox

I don't get it. Did something change between 4.0.5 and 4.2.3 that would cause such a strange error?

[peterj]

localhost should have worked. But this FAQ should shed light on a significant changed that happened in 4.2.x:

Https://community.jboss.org/wiki/JBoss42FAQ

Though the FAQ neglects to mention that JBoss AS now binds to 12.0.0.1 (but then you saw that in the log entry you posted). But I think that this fact is mentioned in the readme file that come with 4.2.x.

[ianfeldberg]

Peter - thanks for the FAQ. I'll bet that's the problem. I can't wait to get to work tomorrow and try it out!