Accessing Mongrel on Ubuntu within a Windows VM

Question

Hej,

i'm developing on an Ubuntu 10.04 Version. I'm using Mongrel 1.1.5. To test crossbrowser compability i want to access my local server directly out of a VM (Virtual Box OSE) runnning Windows XP Prof.

Network connection is established, a ping from Windows to ubuntu shows that the connection is established, but when i try to access my ruby on rails app via http://IpOfUbuntu:3000 i get no response.

Does anybody no what to do?

Thanks

Answer 1

Is there a firewall blocking port 3000? You can check on the ubuntu box by doing

sudo iptables  -L

If there are no firewall rules blocking access you should see something like this

Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target     prot opt source               destination         

Answer 2

One Add: I can access my Ubuntu system out of the VM if i have running Apache2. but the port 3000 still gets an unsuccessful connection. Any idea?