VirtualBox Server

Download

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

Port Forwarding

Get Linux Guest IP address in terminal using:

ip addr show

You will get something like:

eth0: inet 10.0.2.15 (example)

• From VirtualBox Menu, go to Settings → Network
• Or if the VM is running, from the Toolbar Menu, go to Devices → Network → Network Settings
• Set Network Adapter to Attached to: NAT
• Click the Port Forwarding button
• Use the table below to find the correct IP and Port.
• You can now access the sever from your Host machine's web browser by visiting http://127.0.0.1:8888 or http://localhost:8888.

Website Setup

Apache Example

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerAdmin webmaster@example.com
    ServerName 127.0.0.1:8888
    DocumentRoot /var/www/example/public/

        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Order allow,deny
        allow from all

    ErrorLog /var/www/example/logs/error.log
    CustomLog /var/www/example/logs/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

Nginx Example

server {
    listen 80;

    server_name 127.0.0.1:8888;
    root /var/www/example/public;
    index index.html index.htm index.php;

    access_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.access_log;
    error_log /var/log/nginx/localhost.error_log info;
}

Multiple Sites

https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-configure-single-and-multiple-wordpress-site-settings-with-nginx

FTP