unable to start notebook on python linux server

Question

I have installed anaconda on linux. I am trying to bring up jupyter notebook as follows:

./jupyter notebook --no-browser --port=8889

looks like it starts, no errors on the console. But when I try to access the url

http://<server ip>:8889

I get page unavailable error. Any ideas what I am missing here?

this is the output after starting the jupyter notebook:

 bin]$ ./jupyter notebook --no-browser --port=8889
[I 15:43:02.760 NotebookApp] JupyterLab beta preview extension loaded from /usr/local/clo/ven/python-2.7.12/anaconda2/lib/python2.7/site-packages/jupyterlab
[I 15:43:02.760 NotebookApp] JupyterLab application directory is /usr/local/clo/ven/python-2.7.12/anaconda2/share/jupyter/lab
[I 15:43:02.765 NotebookApp] Serving notebooks from local directory: /usr/local/clo/ven/python-2.7.12/anaconda2/bin
[I 15:43:02.765 NotebookApp] 0 active kernels
[I 15:43:02.766 NotebookApp] The Jupyter Notebook is running at:
[I 15:43:02.766 NotebookApp] http://localhost:8889/?token=e2d0598937406066fc34f23f5f2187f2d6393976d84b5a2e
[I 15:43:02.766 NotebookApp] Use Control-C to stop this server and shut down all kernels (twice to skip confirmation).
[C 15:43:02.766 NotebookApp]

    Copy/paste this URL into your browser when you connect for the first time,
    to login with a token:
        http://localhost:8889/?token=e2d0598937406066fc34f23f5f2187f2d6393976d84b5a2e&token=e2d0598937406066fc34f23f5f2187f2d6393976d84b5a2e

Answer 1

By default, a notebook server runs locally at 127.0.0.1:8888 and is accessible only from localhost. You may access the notebook server from the browser using http://127.0.0.1:8888 ; this means you can't access it from the outer world (which is any machine except the server)

to change it follow the instruction in the official docs

in case the above instructions didn't work, you can forward your ip address so it is considered somehow as part of the server:

ssh -N -f -L localhost:8888:localhost:8889 remote_user@remote_host