[plt-scheme] Re: Newbie question about PLT web application

Another thing to do is to switch to serve/servlet and add #:listen-ip
#f to the arguments.

Jay

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:02 PM, John Clements
<clements at brinckerhoff.org> wrote:
>
> On Apr 18, 2009, at 10:20 PM, gadva wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the quick reply,
>>
>> Sorry If I was unclear with the question, I just haven't had that much
>> experience with setting up a web server before, and with networking in
>> general so I'm not sure about the right terminology yet.
>>
>> I guess my question was how to setup the application to serve requests
>> to users connecting to my server by typing
>> http://serverIP:8000/myapplication.ss.
>>
>> Because right now when I test it on a browser from within the server
>> it runs ok, but when I attempt to connect from a different computer it
>> does not work. So by using the code described above (and in the PLT
>> Blog Application example from the website) (basically using web-sever/
>> insta, serve/servlet) I am running the application on a selected port,
>> so when a user connects to my IP adress with the correct port etc
>> shouldn't the web server accept a request and respond with the HTML
>> page that I define?
>
> Speaking very generally, yes.
>
> My guess is that the external requests are not reaching your web server,
> either because of a software firewall or because of an external network
> firewall.
>
> One easy test is to try to contact the your PLT web server on the given port
> using a simple telnet client from another machine, e.g.:
>
> my-other-machine% telnet serverIP 8000
>
> If it goes through... well, I'd be surprised.  My guess is that it will
> fail, but it can fail in two very different ways: most firewalls refuse to
> answer entirely, in order to increase the cost of port scanning.  So if you
> get an immediate "server is not answering" message, then there's probably no
> firewall in place.  If you just get a stalled telnet, then there's probably
> a firewall in place.
>
> FWIW, there are about 150 things that could be going wrong here; my
> confidence that I'm steering you in the right direction is only slightly
> higher than 50%.
>
> All the best,
>
> John Clements
>
>
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