Topic: Accessing a host running on a VM

[iconofsin]

I have an Apache server running on a virtual machine and I want to be able to access the pages it serves from a browser running on the host OS.

I am using OracleVM virtualbox as my VM platform.
I am using windows 7 as my host OS.
I am using ubuntu as my guest OS.

I have managed to set up a virtual host so that it works from browsers running in the guest OS (ubuntu)
But I cannot get it to serve these pages to a browser running in the host OS windows.

The config file in the apache2/sites-available and apache2/sites-enabled has the following config for the virtual host I am trying to access.


<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost
ServerName testsite
DocumentRoot /var/newserver
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/newserver/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /usr/lib/cgi-bin/
<Directory "/usr/lib/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options +ExecCGI -MultiViews +SymLinksIfOwnerMatch
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn

CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/access.log combined

Alias /doc/ "/usr/share/doc/"
<Directory "/usr/share/doc/">
Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.0/255.0.0.0 ::1/128
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>

Note that this config is a copy/paste of the default local host config which Apache is installed with, only the root directory and servername have been changed so it is definitely a valid config.

The hosts file on ubuntu has the following

127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 sam-VirtualBox
127.0.0.1 testsite

As I said this setup allows for browsers running on the guest OS to access the site.

My VM platform creates a virtual network interface between the two systems, this appears in windows list of network interfaces.

I have tried adding the IP address for this interface to the windows 7 hosts file

ie xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx testsite

But it is not working.
The Apache config file has <VirtualHost *:80> so Apache should serve the site no matter what IP the request comes from. And the windows Hosts file has the same reference to the site (with a different IP) that the Ubuntu hosts file has

So why cant my windows browsers access the site?

[James Blond]

Set the network to private network or bridged. The default setting (NAT) does not allow access the guest OS from the outside.