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Folks, I am stuck with a weird problem here. I am running a Websphere server locally on my Win 7 machine. Http port is 9081. When I am trying to access my application using localhost it works fine, as soon as I replace it with my IP address it stops responding. Is this a Win 7 quirk? How to fix it?

Works: http://localhost:9081/myApp/first.html

Doesn't work: http://<XX.XX.XX.XX>:9081/myApp/first.html

Where XX.XX.XX.XX is my local IP Address. I have confirmed my IP address again n again with ipconfig

user1195192
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Your Websphere server could be listening only on the loopback interface. Confirm this using netstat

netstat -an | findstr "9081"

If you see a response like this:

 127.0.0.1:9081

You might need to configure your service to listen on the other interfaces connected to the network.

Daniel t.
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My 1st guess would be some sort of antivirus/firewall software that may possibly shutting down ports.

You might want to verify that by trying to telnet to port 9081 from another machine to your Win7 machine to ensure that it connects.

Victor Chan
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