Method not allowed http 405 error

Question

I built a web service and it contains a static document myvi.html and a web method vi myvi.vi
the myvi.html contains a form to post data to myvi.vi by clicking the submit button.
When I used http://localhost:8080/servicename/myvi.html to fill the form and submit, the data had been posted to myvi.vi and it worked fine.
But when I used http://ipaddress:8080/servicename/myvi.html to fill the form and submit, I got the error 405 : method not allowed.
What's the problem? I already turned off all firewalls.
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Answer 1

"Method Not Implemented"... Ah, the joys of webservers. Could be that, well, the method (GET, POST, CONNECT) isn't implemented or enabled in the daemon's configuration.  That's not so much of a firewall issue but a server/daemon configuration problem.  I'm most familiar with apache, so YMMV.
Default install of the webserver?  You said you turned off firewalls, but is the port actually listening externally? (Use a port scanner to scan the machine, nmap or similar... there's a lot of them out there.)  Can you see anything at http://ipaddress through a web browser?  Is the machine on the same subnet, or are you punching through NAT on a router somewhere?
Also see that there aren't any .htaccess files or line items in the configuration restricting access to the server to localhost.