I am wanting to use a session of ubuntu to host my web page

[Bean]

I have LAMP installed on ubuntu... I am a "newbie". The white paper I am using says to change the "bind-address = 127.0.0.1" in the MySQL my.cnf file to my IP address... what would "my" IP address be?

[Perryg]

ifconfig -a will show you your IP address.

[Bean]

ok... but... is this talking about my modem IP? my Host IP? my Guest IP (If there is one)? If someone is trying to reach my modem IP to access the server, I use a dunamic DNS service that follows my dynamic IP and allowed me to choose a domain address for it... I am sooo confused...

[Bean]

VirtualBox:~$ ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:fa:b7:c7
inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::a00fefa:b7c7/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:33249 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:9015 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:38847507 (38.8 MB) TX bytes:580479 (580.4 KB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:274 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:274 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:39871 (39.8 KB) TX bytes:39871 (39.8 KB)

[Perryg]

Your guest IP is what you have showing for eth0. Since you are using NAT can I assume you do not have a router in your LAN?

[Bean]

I do have a router... And I have DDNS configured for my DynDNS account

[Perryg]

Then I would switch to using bridged mode for the network adaptor.

[Bean]

Virtualbox originally setup a bridge. But my host could no longer connect... so I eliminate the bridge...

[Bean]

ok... deleted the host bridge setup by VB. Went into VM setup and bridged to correct adapter and manually setup IP for ubuntu.... Do I use the guest (Ubuntu) IP or the host IP for the MySQL setup?

[Perryg]

If the bridge is working you should have a unique address in the guest that is in the same subnet as the host and router.
I would use the guest IP since this is the one hosting the LAMP, unless you have the SQL installed in the host. In any case once you have a reliable bridged connection VirtualBox has done its part and everything else is user defined and outside the scope of this forum.

[Bean]

It did not have a unique IP, so I went ahead and entered one manually. I will give it a trial run tomorrow...