Port Forwarding Problems

[mav]

This may be a bit of a grave dig on these forums, but did you work out why apache didn't work simple112?

I am having the same problem ssh works no problems, apache works on my guest but i can't reach it from the host. No firewall setup on host

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Key: GUI/SaveMountedAtRuntime, Value: yes
Key: GUI/InfoDlgState, Value: 400,450,normal
Key: GUI/LastWindowPostion, Value: 61,120,720,442
Key: GUI/Fullscreen, Value: off
Key: GUI/Seamless, Value: off
Key: GUI/AutoresizeGuest, Value: on
Key: VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/HostPort, Value: 2222
Key: VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/GuestPort, Value: 22
Key: GUI/LastCloseAction, Value: powerOff
Key: VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/ssh/Protocol, Value: TCP
Key: VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/http/HostPort, Value: 8080
Key: VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/http/GuestPort, Value: 80
Key: VBoxInternal/Devices/pcnet/0/LUN#0/Config/http/Protocol, Value: TCP

[TerryE]

You are trying to connect to http://host:8080/whateverTheSiteLinkIs aren't you?

[mav]

You are trying to connect to http://host:8080/whateverTheSiteLinkIs aren't you?

Yes same way i have been connecting through with ssh,

I have played around with it some more and now get HTTP 300 invalid request response but it doesn't identify it as the web-server that is giving me the response, i'm starting to wonder wether that response is coming from virtualbox the host or the guest.

Googling suggests stuff with iptables needs to be done but this is when you have a linux host and linux guest and forcing it to NAT.

[TerryE]

You need to be a little careful -- especially if you are using virtual hosts in apache. If you think about it, this facility enables many websites to be mapped to the same IP address, and the way that apache decides which virtual host (in an http.conf sense) to use is by interrogating the request header to discover what the client is using for its host. Port redirection will get this hopelessly confused. I must admit that since version 2, using the bridged interface is just so easy that I've stopped using NAT.

[mav]

You need to be a little careful -- especially if you are using virtual hosts in apache. If you think about it, this facility enables many websites to be mapped to the same IP address, and the way that apache decides which virtual host (in an http.conf sense) to use is by interrogating the request header to discover what the client is using for its host. Port redirection will get this hopelessly confused. I must admit that since version 2, using the bridged interface is just so easy that I've stopped using NAT.

Yes but i've read there is difficulty when the host is using a wireless card like i am for my network i believe it has problems i have yet to try it yet.

[Sasquatch]

Those issues were only when a virtual interface were used and you had to bridge it manually. Now VB accesses the NIC directly. That doesn't give those issues.