On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Tom Wieland <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. > > I'm trying to get remote debugging to work in my IDE and on an Ubuntu 12.04 > VPS. I'd like to use port 8881 (or any other really) so I've added that to > my firewall. > > If I take the example on the NodeJS homepage; > > > var http = require('http'); > http.createServer(function (req, res) { > res.writeHead(200, {'Content-Type': 'text/plain'}); > res.end('Hello World\n'); > }).listen(8881, '127.0.0.1'); > console.log('Server running at http://127.0.0.1:8881/'); > > > then I can't reach it with telnet. if I change the host to > <myoutwardfacingip> then I can telnet to it. Would this be the problem I'm > also having with `node --debug-brk=8881 thescriptiwanttodebug.js` ?
Yes. The debugger always listens on localhost. If you want to access it from a remote computer, you'll have to set up port forwarding with ssh or maybe iptables. -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
