httpServer only works on localhost

pabloqs · March 24, 2022

This works: http://localhost:23119/connector/ping

But this does not:
http://INTERNAL-IP:23119/connector/ping

I want to know if it is possible to make this service accessible on the internal network. I am attempting to use the same zotero, for different connectors (chromebook and another laptop). The servers run in a linux machine.

dstillman · March 24, 2022

It only binds to localhost — it's really not designed for anything other than IPC. But you could probably put a reverse proxy in front of it bound to the local network if you really wanted to.

pabloqs · March 24, 2022

thank you very much for the information.

I was able to set up a reverse proxy on Unbuntu 20.04 by following this tutorial.

https://linuxways.net/ubuntu/how-to-set-up-nginx-as-reverse-proxy-on-ubuntu-20-04/

this is what my configuration file looks like:

server {

listen 8888;

server_name _;

location / {
proxy_pass http://localhost:23119;
}
}

After this, I went to the advanced configuration of the connector, in "Advanced Configuration", and changed the "connector.url" option to this address: http://INTERNAL-IP:8888. Now I have all the connectors of the different computers working, all of them communicating with a single server!