Using El Capitan, I would like to open port 8080 for local use

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Using El Capitan, I would like to open port 8080 for local use

I have turned off SIP using Apple Restore/Terminal but have still been unable to connect to port 8080 using a browser locally. I want to run an Atlassian Confluence instance locally and use it as a personal wiki. I have set port forwarding and still cannot "telnet localhost 8080".

Can someone please provide instructions on how to do this? I am very disappointed in this installation of El Capitan. I use my Macbook Pro for a living and this has caused me great delay. If I cannot resolve it, I'll go back to an earlier version of the OS, but again this will cause me more delay.

Please help if anyone knows how to resolve this.

Thanks,

DLWhitehurst

MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), null

Posted on Oct 26, 2015 8:35 AM

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Oct 26, 2015 12:44 PM in response to dlwhitehurst

Did you setup a telnet listener on port 8080? There must be a service running to listen and respond on the port.

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Oct 26, 2015 2:13 PM in response to BobTheFisherman

Bob:

No, I didn't verify that the telnet service was listening and available. I can start Apache but no action in the browser. I can run Atlassian Confluence (contains Tomcat server on port 8080) and that starts successfully but I'm not sure why the browser requests are "denied".

Any suggestions?

David

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Oct 26, 2015 2:17 PM in response to BobTheFisherman

Oh, and Bob, one doesn't need to setup a listener on Telnet for that specific port. If you type "telnet localhost 443" and the port is open "it will try to connect". If the port is closed, it will not. This is a way to verify ports locally on a Linux machine. So I know the ports are blocked, with or without a firewall. I am familiar with iptables but not the Apple firewall. I am, however doing all this with the firewall turned off via the UI.

David

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