Can’t ping to vagrant box

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I'm trying to create a Vagrant base box following the 2 resources here:

Using Ubuntu 12.10 (with LAMP) as the OS, I have 1 problem. I couldn't ping the vagrant IP which is 10.0.2.15 although I could SSH via vagrant ssh.

How do I set it up such that I could access the web server from my host?

VirtualBox: 4.2.10
Guest OS: Ubuntu12.10
Host: OSX 10.8.3

Best Answer

You can't just access a Vagrant box with its IP address from the host system. Vagrant's networking is meant to define an abstraction layer that works across multiple providers.

The easiest way to access services on your Vagrant box is to configure port forwarding. In your Vagrantfile, see the section Vagrant.configure and set values for config.vm.network :forwarded_port. For example, the following configuration forwards port 4567 on your local system to port 80 on the Vagrant box:

Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
  config.vm.box = "precise32"
  config.vm.provision :shell, :path => "bootstrap.sh"
  config.vm.network :forwarded_port, host: 4567, guest: 80
end

After making this change, run vagrant reload to apply the changes. After applying the change, you should be able to point your web browser to http://127.0.0.1:4567 to have the Vagrant Apache instance serve a web page. You can read a bit more about this in the Vagrant V2 documentation or on the Vagrant networking page.

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