Unable to connect to guest server from host

[rlayte]

I'm using virtualbox to run an Ubuntu server from os x. I have NAT and bridged connections set up and I am able to ping back and forth, ssh into the guest box, transfer files with scp, etc. However, when I start the Django development server I'm unable to view this from the host.

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$ - manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

When viewing http://192.168.56.1:8000 from the host the page is unable to load. If I curl this address from the Ubuntu guest then the expected holding page is returned.

If I browse to http://192.168.56.1 without the port set, it shows my hosts localhost. So presumably the problem is to do with the host not being able to distinguish between itself and the guest?

Here are the ip details for the guest machine, obtained from host:

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vboxnet0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 0a:00:27:00:00:00 
inet 192.168.56.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.56.255

Within the Ubuntu server I get the following, the first is for the NAT adapter the second is the bridged connection:

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eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:1f:cd:51  
          inet addr:10.0.2.15  Bcast:10.0.2.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe1f:cd51/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1955 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1080 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:173919 (173.9 KB)  TX bytes:159672 (159.6 KB)

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 08:00:27:cf:e8:7f  
          inet addr:192.168.56.1  Bcast:192.168.56.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fecf:e87f/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:22205 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:1867168 (1.8 MB)  TX bytes:468 (468.0 B)

[Sasquatch]

You've got an IP conflict there. The IP on the Host and the Guest, 192.168.56.1, they are not shared. You have set NAT and Host-Only, which means you have a NAT network for internet access (that's fine) and a connection without any limitations between the Host and Guest. But in order to get it fully operational, you must use different IP addresses. Now they have the same and when you try to access the IP, it will refer to the machine itself, instead of the machine you want.

[rlayte]

What are the steps required to use seperate IP addresses? The second adapter I have set to bridged (en1: Airport), should this be set to host-only?

[Sasquatch]

Please read chapter 6 of the User Manual and learn a thing or two about networking if you have no clue as to what to do and how the magic works.