[Grok-dev] getting Grok serving remotely

[J. Cameron Cooper]

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Simon Jagoe <azriphale at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 23 January 2010 18:20, J. Cameron Cooper <jccooper at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to get Grok running on a remote server (an Amazon EC2 one).
> Now,
> > a Zope 2 one I would expect that once it's up on 8080 I'd be able to get
> > there with the public IP:8080, but I'm not able to do this with my new
> Grok
> > instance. I know it's not the firewalling, since I can get another server
> > running on 8080 and see it fine, but with Grok running (with Paster) on
> > 8080, I get the connection refused from the public IP. I know it's
> running,
> > since I can load it with lynx from the server (as 127.0.0.1:8080).
> > I notice that when strating it claims that:
> > Starting server in PID XXXX.
> > serving on 127.0.0.1:8080
> > Is it only going to allow connections to this specific name that it's
> > serving?
>
> Exactly, it is only accepting connections to localhost (i.e.
> 127.0.0.1). If you are using the paster server, you can change this by
> editing /path/to/project/etc/deploy.ini.in and look for the section
> like this:
>
> [server:main]
> use = egg:Paste#http
> host = 127.0.0.1
> port = 8080
>
> Change the host line to contain 0.0.0.0 to bind to all addresses
> available, then re-run ./bin/buildout.
>

Brilliant, thanks. Works great.

Is this in the docs anywhere? I didn't see it, and I looked pretty well--I
think. And it's a bit of an important point.

               --jcc

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