How to setup spring-boot to allow access to the webserver from outside IP addresses

Question

I have been looking into how to setup tomcat within spring-boot to allow access from outside IP addresses. Currently I can view the UI from locaho

Answer 1

Thank you, you saved me tons! I wanted to post this in comments, but I don't have enough reputation to reply.

Those of you who want the information regarding firewall changes,

I used firewalld to add my springboot webserver ports in my vm(centos7)

My webserver was using 8080, so I did:

firewall-cmd --permanent --reload --zone=public --add-port=8080/tcp*

sudo systemctl restart firewalld*

you need to restart/reload the firewalld to apply the changes. if you,

sudo firewall-cmd --list-all*

you can find 8080/tcp has been added to ports list