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I'm working on a Windows 8.1 machine, running Debian in VirtualBox. I have an Apache server on the Debian VM, with a web site on port 80. localhost:80 on the VM works for accessing the site. I have guest port 80 forwarded to host port 8000 in VirtualBox; localhost:8000 accesses the website on Windows.

Now here's my issue: I want to connect to the website from another computer on my local network. I've gone into Windows Firewall and allowed both inbound and outbound connections on port 8000. But nmap on the second computer tells me that port 8000 is not open, and therefore it can't access the website in a browser, via local-ip-address:8000.

Any ideas on what to try from here? Is there other firewall software preinstalled with Windows 8.1? I used an install disc, so no OEM bloatware, and I haven't installed any other security software (just using Defender for antivirus).

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Try allowing virtualbox completely through windows firewall on all networks, public and private, and see what happens.

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  • VirtualBox already had a few rules in Windows Firewall. After reading this answer I changed them to be as permissive as possible, and it still doesn't work.
    – user2752467
    Commented Oct 1, 2014 at 18:50

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