VirtualBox: How to access virtual host on VM from host?

Question

How to access from the host the Apache virtual domain created on virtual machine.

Settings of the VM on VirtualBox:

VM ubuntu/precise32 on VirtualBox created with vagrantfile from How to setup a LAMP development environment in Vagrant by Sanchit Jain Rasiya
installed Apache/2.2.22
installed Lynx browser
Virtual Host /etc/apache2/sites-available/example.com

ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com ServerName example.com DocumentRoot /home/vagrant/www/example.com AllowOverride All Order allow,deny Allow from all ErrorLog "/home/vagrant/www/example.com/logs/example.com-error.log" CustomLog "/home/vagrant/www/example.com/logs/example.com-access.log" combined

From the browser on the host machine I can access VM's localhost as http://192.168.205.10/index.html How can I access VM's example.com?

On the host's /etc/hosts I have added line for example.com

127.0.0.1   localhost
127.0.0.2   tmp.loc
127.0.0.3   temp.loc
192.168.205.10  example.com

When I try http://example.com/mj.html I get the 404 Not Found page from Apache/2.2.22 (Ubuntu) Server at example.com Port 80

On the virtual machine I can access page with the Lynx

lynx http://example.com/mj.html

This is noted in the /home/vagrant/www/example.com/logs/example.com-access.log file as

127.0.0.1 - - [03/Apr/2016:15:53:49 +0000] "GET /mj.html HTTP/1.0" 200 344 "-" "Lynx/2.8.8dev.9 libwww-FM/2.14 SSL-MM/1.4.1 GNUTLS/2.12.14"

But when I try to access example.com from the host there are no logs neither in access.log nor /home/vagrant/www/example.com/logs/example.com-error.log

There are no logs in the host's Server files /opt/lampp/logs/access_log and /opt/lampp/logs/error_log

mathematicalman · Answer 1 · 2018-12-20T10:11:34.370

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On Ubuntu /etc/hosts:

127.0.0.1       localhost
127.0.2.2       example.com

On Windows (VBox) C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts:

10.0.2.2 localhost
10.0.2.2 example.com

Then just reboot your VBox Windows and type in browser (on Windows): http://example.com/

edited Dec 20 '18 at 10:11

answered Dec 20 '18 at 09:53

mathematicalman

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 28 '17 at 11:57

I have the same issue, I've been trying to access my drupal project from my virtualbox vm but it is not working. One of the solutions I found on the Internet is using the outer keyword in your hosts file in the VM.

The following works fine for me:

In your host machine (let's say a ubuntu) type: ifconfig, and get the inet address of wlan0 (example: 192.168.1.15)
Add this address to the host file in your virtualobox machine and use the outer keyword
```
[192.168.1.15 outer]
```

Now you can access your localhost from your virtualbox browser by typing the address of your wlan0 (ex: 192.168.1.15).

If you need to access a specific port on your host add the port number to the address example 192.168.1.15:8001

VirtualBox: How to access virtual host on VM from host?

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