Unable to configure standalone JBoss AS7 instance to be reachable from outside network

Question

I've been trying for a few days now to configure a development JBoss working space on my Linux Ubuntu server (both AS7 and WildFly 8), but I can't seem to be able to configure it so that I can see the web-facing ports outside of the local network. I've looked through several tutorials and pages here on stackoverflow, and they all seem to point to these lines in standalone.xml:

452     <interfaces>
453         <interface name="management">
454             <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address.management:127.0.0.1}"/>
455         </interface>
456         <interface name="public">
457             <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address:127.0.0.1}"/>
458         </interface>
459         <!-- TODO - only show this if the jacorb subsystem is added  -->
460         <interface name="unsecure">
461             <!--
462               ~  Used for IIOP sockets in the standard configuration.
463               ~                  To secure JacORB you need to setup SSL
464               -->
465             <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address.unsecure:127.0.0.1}"/>
466         </interface>
467     </interfaces>

I've tried several different solutions, changing the inet-address value to point to 0.0.0.0 like so

458             <inet-address value="${jboss.bind.address:0.0.0.0}"/>

as well as using the <any-address/> and <any-ipv4-address/> tag. I've also tried running the server with the -b 0.0.0.0 option. It appears that the changes take with all of these solutions, but when I try to visit the server by typing the IP address with port 9990, I still can't reach the admin console. I believe that the correct changes are being made with respect to interface-binding because on start-up it says

14:24:36,801 INFO  [org.jboss.as] (Controller Boot Thread) JBAS015951: Admin console listening on http://0.0.0.0:9990

I also know that the server is physically reachable because when I simply type in the IP, I can see the /var/www directory structure.

When I use netstat | grep 9990, I get:

tcp        0      0 *:9990                  *:*                     LISTEN      9519/java

Can anyone give me any suggestions as to why I am not able to reach the admin console? I've tried the solutions listed here: Can't access JBoss AS 7 from remote machine and here: How to share jboss over network

UPDATE: The result of the command iptables -L -v -n is:

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT 1736K packets, 1702M bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT 0 packets, 0 bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT 1402K packets, 149M bytes)
 pkts bytes target     prot opt in     out     source               destination

Answer 1

Not pretty sure what do you mean by:

I also know that the server is physically reachable because when I simply type in the IP, I can see the /var/www directory structure.

Are you trying reaching the server through FTP/SFTP , that's why you mention the /var/www folder ? Can you make a list addresses which you have tried ? is http://domain.com:8080 (The Root Web app) reachable ? If so it could be a matter of a firewall rule blocking port 8080. Try running as root:

/etc.rc.d/init.d/iptables stop

And see if you can reach the Administration console. I've published a small checklist of things to do to reach jboss over a network . Hope it helps