Hi Max, there are two distinct problems here
One is that there is no IP access control that can be configured through Neo4j. Setting the listen URIs to a specific address in the configuration does not bind the server there exclusively. This behavior has to be imposed with external means, such as a firewall. The other is a benign bug that has to do with logging the listen address - currently it uses always the java.net.InetAddress methods to find the hostname, ignoring the configuration and leading to the behavior you describe, since the JVM does not prefer the localhost interface. This will be of course addressed in subsequent SNAPSHOTs and milestone releases but it will remain the default behavior. Hope that clarifies things. cheers, CG On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Maximilian Schulz <nam...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > after weeks of experimentation, we finally migrated one of our apps features > to neo4j. But now that we are about to deploy the app to our staging server, > we discovered a small problem with the server configuration. We have checked > the manual at > http://docs.neo4j.org/chunked/1.4.M03/server-configuration.html and followed > the suggested configuration, but we are not getting the expected results. > > What we are trying to achieve is to bind the server to localhost, so it is > no longer accessible from outside. We restricted access to IPv4 in the > wrapper config and set the webadmin data and manage uri to > http://localhost:7474. But when starting the server it still binds to the > hostname. > > Here is the output of the start process. Check the last line, where it > states that the server is started on http://OUR_DOMAIN:7474/ > > 6/8/11 1:44:46 PM org.neo4j.server.database.Database INFO: Using database at > /tmp/neo4j-community-1.4.M03/data/graph.db > 6/8/11 1:44:47 PM org.neo4j.server.modules.DiscoveryModule INFO: Mounted > discovery module at [/] > 6/8/11 1:44:47 PM org.neo4j.server.modules.RESTApiModule INFO: Mounted REST > API at [http://localhost:7474/db/data/] > 6/8/11 1:44:47 PM org.neo4j.server.modules.ManagementApiModule INFO: Mounted > management API at [http://localhost:7474/db/manage/] > 6/8/11 1:44:47 PM org.neo4j.server.modules.WebAdminModule INFO: Mounted > webadmin at [/webadmin] > 6/8/11 1:44:47 PM org.neo4j.server.NeoServerWithEmbeddedWebServer INFO: > Starting Neo Server on port [7474] > 6/8/11 1:44:47 PM org.neo4j.server.web.Jetty6WebServer INFO: Mounting static > content at [/webadmin] from [webadmin-html] > 6/8/11 1:44:48 PM org.neo4j.server.NeoServerWithEmbeddedWebServer INFO: > Server started on [http://OUR_DOMAIN:7474/] > > > I am pretty sure that I have missed something, but I cannot figure out what. > Any help is greatly appreciated! > > Max > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
