Hi,
I have a ruby app deployed on ubuntu droplet. The app is running on localhost:3000. How can I check from outside, like my local laptop to see the app is running properly?
thanks!
Hello,
Can you please run the following command and provide us with the output:
netstat -plant
I think that you might be just able to visit your.server.ip:3000
Let me know how it goes.
Regards,
Bobby
Here is the o/p:
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo2-01:/var/dev.to# netstat -plant
Active Internet connections (servers and established)
Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.53:53 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 655/systemd-resolve
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 991/sshd
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 32442/postgres
tcp 0 304 206.189.76.241:22 76.126.20.84:55265 ESTABLISHED 13896/sshd: root@pt
tcp6 0 0 :::22 :::* LISTEN 991/sshd
Good job with the output. Based on that information, I do not see an app running on port 3000, localhost or otherwise. If you look at the lines you do provide, you can see an example of a localhost only app and an app that is publicly accessible (firewall notwithstanding):
Localhost only, postgres:
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:5432 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 32442/postgres
The relevant info is the 127.0.0.1 which is the localhost IP address.
Publicly accessible, sshd, so you can connect:
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:22 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 991/sshd
The relevant info there is the IP address before the port :22, 0.0.0.0 - that means it is listening on all interfaces on your droplet, local and public.
Try starting your app and running that command again - we should see a line that has :3000 and ruby in it. If it is bound to 127.0.0.1:3000 that is localhost only.
At that point you can either change your app config to bind to your public IP (or all interfaces) or, and this is a common solution, you run a proxy in front of the app like nginx.
Let us know how it goes and good luck!