[hunchentoot-devel] Running webserver on remote machine

[William Halliburton]

Note that since this is an amazon EC2 instance you will have to have
allowed access to the instance on the 8080 port. Since you said that it
worked earlier on the same instance I'm just throwing this out there as a
low possibility.

On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Jeff Byrd <jeffreydbyrd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Hans thanks for your reply,
> I do have Hunchentoot installed using quicklisp. And sorry for the
> ambiguity, I meant that I enter the server's address in my browser's
> address bar (in this case it would be
> ec2-184-72-143-0.compute-1.amazonaws.com:8080), it then hangs for a
> while, and eventually shows an error page saying "Opps, Google Chrome could
> not connect..."
>
> Some additional info:
> On my local host, after entering the hunchentoot:start command,  the
> prompt hangs until I hit CNTL-C. But on the remote host, it brings me back
> to the REPL. I'm still able to enter commands while sbcl runs (which I've
> read is characteristic of threading). I think I'll do a bit more homework
> and try to print request logs (if any) to a file.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeff
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Hans Hübner <hans.huebner at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi Jeff,
>>
>> I don't quite know what exactly the problem is.  Did you install
>> Hunchentoot with quicklisp (http://www.quicklisp.org/)?  If not, please
>> do so.  Also, what do you mean when you write "going to <remotehost>:8080/
>> doesn't display anything"? Do you get an empty page?
>>
>> -Hans
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 6, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Jeff Byrd <jeffreydbyrd at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> This is my first attempt at a webapp, and first time posting to the
>>> mailing list. I have a question about starting a server on a remote
>>> machine. I've been playing with Hunchentoot on my localhost, and it works
>>> great. Earlier it worked on my remote webspace also. But recently I've been
>>> playing with SBCL threading and Allegro (following this<http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/practical-web-programming-with-allegroserve.html>tutorial, which had me install all sorts of weird gigamonkey stuff) and now
>>> when I run the command
>>>
>>> (hunchentoot:start <http://www.weitz.de/hunchentoot/#start> (make-instance 'hunchentoot:easy-acceptor <http://www.weitz.de/hunchentoot/#acceptor> :port 8080))
>>>
>>> it says
>>> #<HUNCHENTOOT:EASY-ACCEPTOR (host *, port 8080)>
>>> and going to <remotehost>:8080/ doesn't display anything.
>>> I hit cntr-z to put it in the background and then
>>>
>>> $ lsof -i :8080 and I get
>>>
>>> COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE  DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
>>> sbcl    11350 root    5u  IPv4 1816786      0t0  TCP *:http-alt (LISTEN)
>>>
>>> I have a feeling it's something simple, like incorrect host variable or
>>> a separate thread being stopped, but I'm having a hard time finding answers
>>> on Google and related documentation. Any suggestions or information on what
>>> that above message means would be greatly appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Jeff
>>>
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