i am making a project on search engine across a LAN technologies being used are:-

-Apache tomcat 6.0.16
-Java Server Pages.
-Servlets.
-HTML.

The problem is that after entering the fields for registration, when user clicks on submit button then following error message is shown on the browser screen:-

Unable to connect

Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 192.168.1.23:8080.

i am running server as a localhost and using following fields within the form tag of jsp for directing it to a servlet MainController:-

<form name="form1" method="post" action="http://192.168.1.23:8080/SearchEngineServer/MainController?ACTION=registerme">


This problem is also there for existing user's when they try to login directly from home page.

i am using MYSQL server database 5.0.

Please help...

Check your firewall settings.

: Check your firewall settings.
-->Firewall shows that it is not blocking any communication regarding this i.p.

make sure tomcat is up and running!