Vagrant Refused via browser

Question

I am very new to using Vagrant in my development workflow, however when setting up the box using vagrant up and then accessing it via my host i get a connection refused with my browser.

Is all that needs to be done to work is: vagrant init scotch/box vagrant up

?

Solution

Make sure to forward the 80 port from the guest so you can access the vm from your browser. Edit your Vagrantfile and make sure to have a line like (by default when doing vagrant init I believe this is commented)

config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080

You can then access your web server (if running on the VM) from http://127.0.0.1:8080 or http://localhost:8080

If you prefer to use a fixed private IP, you will need to add

config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.33.10"

you will then access the vm server using http://192.168.33.10

note:

• if you have nothing running on the port 80 nothing will be displayed (obviously). you can run sudo netstat -ant and check you have a process running on port 80

• Adjust the port number from the example with the service you're running if it runs on another port.

Comments

[Elevant]

i dont mean inside the actual box i mean like outside on my host. Does the same apply?

[Frederic Henri]

yes it applies for your host, the goal is not to access the vm directly but accessing from your host

[Elevant]

Thanks i will give that a go just doing a postinstall atm

[Elevant]

I did uncomment the private network and used that ip in my browser.

[Elevant]

Is it possible to use a specific ip instead of localhost eg 192.168.33.10?

[Frederic Henri]

@Elevant giving an example with fixed IP

[Elevant]

Thanks for the example of the fixed IP i have tried it with no avail. I vagrant init and then vagrant up and postinstall.sh is there specific setup i need to do in vm or my host? my host already had a past apache/mysql/php setup before vagrant is that interfering?

[Frederic Henri]

can you check you can access your site from the vm (curl or something) ? do you have specific http.conf for apache ?

[Elevant]

no i did a restore of my http.conf but of note is that on the vm i cannot find apache or nginx just has node and stuff setup?

[Frederic Henri]

run sudo netstat -ant and check you have something running on port 80, you should have something like 0 0.0.0.0:80

[Elevant]

I think it was just related to the specific box i have it working now. Thanks.