using VMWare Player 5, how can I access a web server running in a VM via an external machine?

Question

Win7 PC running Rails in an Ubuntu VM via VMWare Player. I\'m working on a site and would like to show it to a friend who\'s outside my network.

I found this blog post,

Answer 1

You can use an http proxy to do that, by doing that you don't need to expose your entire private network, check out this blog post for more information how to access docker containers from external devices