[SOLVED] How to access Mageia VirtualBox guest web server?

[riclags]

I installed Mageia 2 as VirtualBox guest on my Win 7 host. I am planning to use it mainly as a development web server. I set the Network to Bridged Adapter so that I can communicate with the web server.

Doing an ifconfig shows me the IP address of eth0 and I use that IP, go to my web browser on host machine and enter it as the address, expecting to see the "It works!" page. But instead the browser times out and shows no page.

Prior to using Mageia, I had a Debian guest for the same purpose. After I setup my web server in Debian, I went to my web browser in host and entered the IP address and I got the "It works!" page. I didn't have to configure stuff or anything, it just worked.

So I am thinking, maybe Mageia has some restrictions with regard to this and some other configurations are needed. Can anyone help me configure my Mageia so I can communicate with it and use it as my local development web server?

[ah7013]

The firewall may be preventing incoming connections on the web port so you just need to run drakfirewall as root and make sure the "Web Server" box is ticked to allow incoming connections on that port.

[riclags]

The firewall may be preventing incoming connections on the web port so you just need to run drakfirewall as root and make sure the "Web Server" box is ticked to allow incoming connections on that port.

I don't have drakfirewall installed. My Mageia installation is very minimal. During installation I only selected to install a minimal setup. Is there a way of setting up these ports manually?

[ah7013]

Yes you can modify /etc/shorewall/rules manually and append something like this to it:

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ACCEPT  net     fw      tcp     80,443  -

After doing this just restart shorewall:

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systemctl restart shorewall.service


[riclags]

Yes you can modify /etc/shorewall/rules manually and append something like this to it:

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ACCEPT  net     fw      tcp     80,443  -

After doing this just restart shorewall:

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systemctl restart shorewall.service


THANKS SO MUCH! This worked! But instead of editing the /etc/shorewall/rules file, I appended the line you provided to the /etc/shorewall/rules.drakx file. I'm guessing the latter file is what drakfirewall changes?

Again, thanks so much!

[ah7013]

Yes that's correct, drakfirewall modifies /etc/shorewall/rules.drakx.