Topic: White Pages for my enabled site and localhost

[MeloWise]

I'm using Oracle's VirtualBox
My network on the virtual box is set to Bridged Adapter

apache/2.4.7
php 5.5.9
Linux/Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS
No errors in my apache2 error.log file.

First time creating a server on a virtual box. I am not confident i understand how my computer browser access the virtual box server i created. Once i understand that i could fix my issue. Which is, I can't finding my enabled site or localhost via my browser on my computer. All i get is a white page for both. I don't even see the it works page.

I am following this book and got stuck on chapter 1: Understanding and Setting Up Our Development Environment.
link to book ---
http://www.academia.edu/8767411/Magento_PHP_Developers_Guide

I have installed Oracle's VirtualBox, mounted Ubuntu, installed apache2 with $ sudo apt-get install apache2 -y. At this point everyone says, now go to your ip and you will see "It Works". Which i do not see. I see a white page with nothing on it.

I then looked to see if the localhost /var/www/html/index.html even exists. Which is does, i opened the file and i can see the line "It Works!".

My hosts file on my computer has ../driver/etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.56.1 magento.localhost.com

My hosts file on my Virtual box /etc/hosts

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 unbuntu
192.168.56.1 magento.localhost.com

Thank you for the help.

[Jan-E]

192.168.56.1 works the other way around. You can see a webserver on the Virtualbox host from the Virtualbox guest. So your Apache must be on the host, not on the Ubuntu guest.

[MeloWise]

I am pretty sure i have apache2 on the host and not the guest. I have double checked with https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ApacheMySQLPHP that my Ubuntu and apache2 setup was correct.

Still not able to see the it works page by going to localhost on my computer.

[MeloWise]

Oh man thank you so much for the terminology you used. I had no idea what you meant by host and guest. I thought the VM was host and my ubuntu login was guest. After doing research about host and guest i now understand.

My windows 7 is the host, My VM Ubuntu is the Guest where my LAMP set up is. Once i figured that out, i looked at my network settings in my VM. I had to set it to Host-only adapter. Once i did that i saw my "VirtualBox Host-Only Ethernet Adapter". The same thing i saw on my host, when i typed "ipconfig".

Thank you again.