Vagrant port forwarding 80 to 8000 with Laravel Homestead

Question

My Problem:

I can only access my sites through port 8000, but not 80, which makes me think it is not redirecting 80 to 8000 as it says it should be.

Answer 1

I see there is an accepted answer, but this alternative may also help someone. If I understand correctly you really dislike the port "8000"!

Have you tried setting a private network?

Vagrant.configure(VAGRANTFILE_API_VERSION) do |config|
    /*other config stuff here */
    config.vm.network :private_network, ip: "192.168.33.22"

This way you can simply use that IP address, or edit you hosts file to map the local domain to that IP.

Take a look at the Vagrant docs:Vagrant Private Networks

BTW, You shouldn't need to shutdown your IIS local server as that is running on a totally different IP range. I have Apache running locally while also accessing the VM server. This allows you to use tools like composer (to pull in laravel) on your local if needed.

Answer 2

You should continue to use ports above 1024 since they are non-privileged ports, BUT if you do want you can run as port 80 on the Homestead VM, as long as you don't have anything holding on to that port on the host machine. Just tried it and it worked, with a few gotchas. First, you change that line in the .rb file from:

config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8000

to

config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 80

When you fire your VM up after saving you will get a warning from vagrant:

==> default: You are trying to forward to privileged ports (ports <= 1024). Most

==> default: operating systems restrict this to only privileged process (typically

==> default: processes running as an administrative user). This is a warning in case

==> default: the port forwarding doesn't work. If any problems occur, please try a

==> default: port higher than 1024.

==> default: Forwarding ports...

default: 80 => 80 (adapter 1)

But it worked for me. Now, to actually get to the VM I had to use it's private IP instead of the localhost name:

http://192.168.10.10/

But sure enough my site was there and everything was working. If you decide to keep it that was you can add that IP address to your hosts file to give it a nice short name.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

I'm not sure what the confusion is - this is the way it's supposed to work.

The web server on the VM listens on port 80. Vagrant/VirtualBox forwards that port from 80 (on the VM) to 8000 (on localhost) so that you can access the site at http://localhost:8000.

Port 80 on the VM's domain name is not going to be available - that domain name probably resolves to localhost.

Try the following: dig local.kujif.com (or nslookup or even ping - I don't know what tools are available on Windows) to find out what IP address that name is resolving to. You will probably find that it's 127.0.0.1 (localhost).

You could try using the IP address set in the homestead file instead: http://192.168.10.10/ - this might work, but it will depend on how networking is configured in the VM.

Ideally, you need to set networking to "bridged" in the VM - this will make the VM look (to your network) like any other device on the network. Other networking options in the VM (sorry, I'm not familiar with the options in VirtualBox) will set the VM up with its own network that is not accessible outside the VM - this is why port forwarding is used to expose network services on the VM.