I've been having a hard time with this. It's probably been 3 days now...
Anyway,
- I've set up my virtualbox on Windows7 with a bridged adapter (eth0).
- Installed LAMP server and it works.
- I can access my site from its' static IP on my host.
- I forwarded port 80 to the static IP of my virtualbox server on my router (not sure if I did this correctly?)
- Checked if the port 80 was open on the canyouseeme site and it was not. My ISP does NOT block port 80 (comcast). I think the problem here is just that nothing is listening for port 80 on my host?
What am I missing? Shouldn't I be able to connect to my site via public/external I.P. because I forwarded port 80 (and 443) to the static IP of my serving virtual machine? Do I need something to listen for port 80 on my host?
Thanks in advance for any help. It is much appreciated..!