How to access my webserver from the host machine?

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My host OS is Gentoo, guest OS - Fedora. I have a web server on Fedora on port 8686 and it works perfectly on guest OS, but I can't access it on my host OS. I tried to use bridged network (then I got 2 different IPs to my guest and host machines from router) and NAT (then I forward port 8686). Nothing helped, but SSH works nicely when using both NAT and bridge (even if using the same port). How to solve this issue?

You should add the guest OS entry in \etc\hosts file of the host OS. — Ramesh, Apr 23 '14 at 17:38
Did you check iptables on the guest OS using iptables -nvL? — mtak, Apr 23 '14 at 18:59
Take a look at this Q if you're attempting to use NAT: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/12885/how-to-reach-a-vbox-guest-from-host-when-using-nat-networking — slm, Apr 24 '14 at 00:16

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 23 '14 at 20:38

If ssh works nicely in both NAT and bridge and on the same port as web-server, then problem is in your web-server configuration.
Check what ip address your web-server binds to. You can check it with netstat utility (you must run it with root privileges):
netstat -nltp

How to access my webserver from the host machine?

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