I know I'm missing something stupidly obvious. I'm using a bridged network, port-forwarding my router and have no firewall installed. Accessing the private IP from my host shows the Nginx page fine but not using my domain (which is pointing to my public IP). Should I put in my Vagrantfile?

This could be something NOT related to Vagrant at all. Any comments you get are going to be pure speculation and hypothetical without seeing at least the vagrant config file in question, possibly network info as well.

With that said, let's start with a few questions.


1.) It sounds like you do have port-forwarding setup on the router, correct?


2.) Do you have any port-forwarding from the host machine to the guest machine in the vagrant file?
# Create a forwarded port mapping which allows access to a specific port
# within the machine from a port on the host machine. In the example below,
# accessing "localhost:8080" will access port 80 on the guest machine.
# config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 8080


3.) Do you have the guest setup as a public or private host in the vagrant file?
# Create a public network, which generally matched to bridged network.
# Bridged networks make the machine appear as another physical device on
# your network.
# config.vm.network ublic_network


Knowing what you have configured for "config.vm.network" would help.


4.) Assuming DNS for the domain does properly resolve to the public IP?
Does this show your proper public IP?


5.) What response do you get when you visit the domain name in a browser? 404 not found?, 50X server error?, 30X not found?, no response at all and it just times out, or does it instantly closes the connection??? What's it doing? Knowing this may help narrow down where/why the packets are getting dropped.

All I have network-related in the file is since I thought that's the easiest way to go public without tweaking with port-forwarding (since I need to use Certbot anyways and I think it needs port 80, not sure if it works with an 8080 source port (if I know what I'm talking about)). Port forwarding's fine, DNS returns my public IP fine. Web browser just times out, says server's taking too long to respond but using the private IP it loads the Nginx page fine.

Am I allowed to bump threads?

Answered in the LQ Rules:

Does that include after someone else has replied or does that apply just to the initial thread post? Actually I want to remove this comment now but don't see a delete button.

Auto-bumping occurs only if nobody replies (after ~16 and ~32 hours, which helps expose unreplied threads to people in different timezones.)

Bumping is the act of posting multiple times without adding new information (or responding to another user).

The best way to get help is to provide relevant information up front rather than requiring others to ask for it.

Think about your issue: consider the information that you haven't yet provided, and diagnostic steps you could take to identify where the issue might be occurring - provide the results of that and people may be able to help further.


There isn't a delete button - the general procedure is to use the report button to ask a mod to do it.