I'm running on OSX 10.9.2. I just set up LAMP on Lubuntu in VirtualBox so that I could run a development server through VirtualBox. I changed my /etc/apache2/ports.conf to listen on 8080 instead of 80, and I set up my VirtualBox port forwarding with NAT with the following configuration:
+--------+----------+---------+-----------+----------+------------+ | Name | Protocol | Host IP | Host Port | Guest IP | Guest Port | +--------+----------+---------+-----------+----------+------------+ | Apache | TCP | | 8080 | | 8080 | +--------+----------+---------+-----------+----------+------------+
I can access websites that I have created in /var/www/ such as /var/www/testwebsite/ by accessing localhost:8080/testwebsite on my host machine (the Mac). I'm trying to install a WordPress site on my guest machine. I have followed Digital Ocean's How To Install WordPress on Ubuntu 12.04 and so far it works when I access http://localhost:8080/wordpresssite inside the guest machine (Lubuntu), but when I try to access http://localhost:8080/wordpresssite on my host machine, it redirects to http://localhost/wordpresssite, when then can't be found. How do I fix this issue? Thanks in advance!
I ended up following this guide: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
In my wp-config.php, I added the following two lines
define('WP_HOME', '<host ip address here>:8080/wordpresssite');
define('WP_SITEURL','<host ip address here>:8080/wordpresssite');
It's a little hacky, but it works for my own testing purposes. Also, apparently I've been running into an issue where localhost:8080/wordpresssite redirects to localhost/wordpresssite on Chrome. I think that this might be a caching issue, since it doesn't redirect when I'm in incognito.