I am new to docker. I am running it on windows. I am trying to get a container named "ghost" (available from the Docker Hub) to work on a Windows 8.1 machine. While the container starts correctly and supposedly exposes url at http://localhost:2368, when I enter this address nothing happens. The same has happened when trying other containers from the Hub which expose urls.
I tried accessing the container's exposed URL from the IP Address I get from the "docker ip" but it failed too. I also tried running the container with the "--net="bridge"" option, to no avail. I think I'm missing something pretty basic, but I can't for the life of me figure out what. Can someone point me in the right direction?
When you install Docker on Windows that means you most likely installed boot2docker.
boot2docker starts a minimal Linux VM (based on VirtualBox) because Docker requires a Linux kernel to run. The Docker daemon is started on that VM and not on your localhost.
You can determine the VMs IP address by typing boot2docker ip on your command line. The standard boot2docker IP address is 192.168.59.103 if you did not configure something else or have multiple instances of that VM running.
So when you execute docker run --name ghost -p 2368:2368 -d ghost the port 2368 is opened at 192.168.59.103:2368. That is where you need to connect to.
For more information please read the official boot2docker documentation.