How to access Virtuoso server in a specific host (not localhost)

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I pulled Virtuoso docker image and I could access the server on the localhost ( http://localhost:8890/) . However, I wanted to access the server in a specific host. I changed this line in the virtuoso.ini without success sofar.

[URIQA]
DefaultHost: myhost:8890

here is the docker run command:

docker run \
    --name virtuoso_test\
    --interactive \
    --tty \
    --env DBA_PASSWORD=mysecret \
    --publish 1111:1111 \
    --publish  8890:8890 \
    --volume `pwd`:/database \
    openlink/virtuoso-opensource-7:latest

here the response:

12:09:58 { Loading plugin 1: Type `plain', file `geos' in `../hosting'
12:09:58   plain version 1.2.3234 from OpenLink Software
12:09:58   GEOS plugin based on Geometry Engine Open Source library from Open Source Geospatial Foundation
12:09:58   SUCCESS plugin 1: loaded from ../hosting/geos.so }
12:09:58 { Loading plugin 2: Type `plain', file `proj4' in `../hosting'
12:09:58   plain version 1.1.3234 from OpenLink Software
12:09:58   Cartographic Projections support based on Frank Warmerdam's proj4 library
12:09:58   SUCCESS plugin 2: loaded from ../hosting/proj4.so }
12:09:58 { Loading plugin 3: Type `plain', file `shapefileio' in `../hosting'
12:09:58   ShapefileIO version 0.1virt71 from OpenLink Software
12:09:58   Shapefile support based on Frank Warmerdam's Shapelib
12:09:58   SUCCESS plugin 3: loaded from ../hosting/shapefileio.so }
12:09:58 OpenLink Virtuoso Universal Server
12:09:58 Version 07.20.3234-pthreads for Linux as of May 18 2022
12:09:58 uses OpenSSL 1.1.1  11 Sep 2018
12:09:58 uses parts of PCRE, Html Tidy
12:09:58 Database version 3126
12:09:58 SQL Optimizer enabled (max 1000 layouts)
12:09:59 Compiler unit is timed at 0.000133 msec
12:10:00 Roll forward started
12:10:00 Roll forward complete
12:10:01 Checkpoint started
12:10:01 Checkpoint finished, log reused
12:10:03 HTTP/WebDAV server online at 8890
12:10:03 Server online at 1111 (pid 1)

In order to access the server:

http://myhost/:8890/

Unfortunately it says the website is not reachable
Any hints?

2

What is the actually HTTP error being reported trying to access the Virtuoso instanced using he myhost hostname ? What does the following curl command report:

curl -I http://myhost:8890

I presume the myhost is setup in the DNS server as a valid and accessible hostname for the machine in question.

The [URIQA] DefaultHost: myhost:8890 setting in the IN file will not assist in resolving the hostname on the guest OS hosting the docker container.

3

Thanks for the reply. This is the result of

curl -I http://myhost:8890

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 5042
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
ETag: "xxxxxxxxx"
Last-Modified: Wed, 18 May 2022 13:38:04 GMT
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 15:54:39 GMT
Server: Virtuoso/07.20.3234 (Linux) x86_64-ubuntu_bionic-linux-gnu
Connection: Keep-Alive

When all seems ok, how to access the virtuoso interface then?

4

Now it work ! was port issue

5

Good to hear it now works …