Enabling Remote Access on Apache Tomcat

By default, remote access on your Apache Tomcat is disabled. This means, you can only access your page using the localhost hostname.
http://localhost:8080 will work.
http://192.168.1.9:8080 will not work. [Assuming 192.168.1.9 is your IP address]

For this to work, go to the conf folder of your tomcat6. Since I am using Ubuntu, it is located in /var/lib/tomcat6/conf.

Inside the folder, there is a server.xml file. Find the line that says:

<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
               prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
               pattern="common" resolveHosts="false"/>

As we can see, resolveHosts is set to false. We change this to true to allow incoming requests to be granted.

<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
               prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
               pattern="common" resolveHosts="true"/>

After changing the file, save it and restart the server.