Access apache2 virtualhost on oracle vm guest through nat?

Question

my problem is the following: I have an Oracle VM with debian on it running apache2. This apache shall handle two webservers, therefore my conf looks like this:

< VirtualHost *:80 > (no spaces, serverfault just shows it wrong without)

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost     ServerName site1.hostpc.domain.com  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site1

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/site1/error.log  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/site1/access.log combined

< /Virtualhost >

< VirtualHost *:80 >

    ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost     ServerName site2.hostpc.domain.com  DocumentRoot /var/www/html/site2

    ErrorLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/site2/error.log  CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/site2/access.log combined

< /Virtualhost >

where hostpc is the name of the hostpc and domain.com is the local domain.

I forwarded Port 80 through NAT from the VM to the host pc (TCP, guest port 80 -> host port 80)

So here is my problem now: when I go to site1.hostpc.domain.com or site2.hostpc.domain.com in the VM, the different websites are shown perfectly, but when I try to open site1.hostpc.domain.com or site2.hostpc.domain.com on my host PC it can't resolve the DNS of the website. When I open hostpc.domain.com it shows site1 just fine, but no way to get site2.

I've tried a lot, but I cannot get it running. (PS: I need to use NAT, Bridged network would disconnect my host PC from the network)

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 02 '16 at 07:08

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You should forward port 80 from host machine to port 80 of virtual machine. Make sure your host entries are correct

answered Sep 02 '16 at 07:08

gloom700

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this is how my entries look like: http://i.epvpimg.com/Dnwic.png – lemon Sep 02 '16 at 07:15
Show me your host entry. It should be 192.168.120.30 your-site-name – gloom700 Sep 02 '16 at 07:21
oh, forgot to say it has to be reached by the whole local network, so a local host entry wouldn't work. – lemon Sep 02 '16 at 07:23
Try local host entry and see if it works. I think you have DNS problem – gloom700 Sep 02 '16 at 07:26
Try disable firewall on virtual machine – gloom700 Sep 02 '16 at 07:28
firewall looks like this: http://pastebin.com/L9KHce3h so it should be disabled, lokal host entry does work. – lemon Sep 02 '16 at 07:35
If local host entry works then the problem is in DNS server. – gloom700 Sep 02 '16 at 07:39
ok, and how to fix it? :( – lemon Sep 02 '16 at 07:43
Make local host entry to all the computers in network. – gloom700 Sep 02 '16 at 07:48
or change the configuration in DNS server – gloom700 Sep 02 '16 at 07:48
i've now set up another vm that should function as a dnsserver, but port forwarding via nat doesn't work :( http://i.epvpimg.com/O9W2d.png , then i changed my dns server on windows to 192.168.120.130 but then nothing can be resolved anymore.. not the hosts entries on the dnsserver vm, not even google.com – lemon Sep 02 '16 at 10:56
allow not only TCP but also UDP – gloom700 Sep 02 '16 at 11:27
add extra dns server 8.8.8.8 . It will resolve google.com – gloom700 Sep 02 '16 at 11:30

Access apache2 virtualhost on oracle vm guest through nat?

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