[Koha] problem installing Koha on ubuntu virtualbox

[Željko Puškarić]

Hi Zac,

The problem is that 127.0.0.1 is a loopback address which always points 
to the computer on which it is set itself, meaning on Windows machine it 
will point to windows machine and on ubuntu virtual machine it will 
point to ubuntu machine. To be able to reach koha site on ubuntu virtual 
machine you have three options:

1) use ubuntu IP address (in your case 192.168.1.68)
2) put the following line in windows machine and any other machine's 
hosts file that will be accesing ubuntu virtual machine (on Windows 7 
C:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts; on UNIX/Linux machines /etc/hosts):

192.168.1.68 ubuntuhost library.ubuntuhost library-intra.ubuntuhost

3) install a DNS server somewhere on your network and configure it (a 
bit beyond the scope of running koha)

With best Regards

Puška

On 12/03/2013 10:24 PM, Zac Craven wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am trying to install Koha following these instructions:
> http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Koha_on_ubuntu_-_packages
>
> My host machine is Windows 8, and Ubuntu is running on it inside 
> Oracle Virtualbox.
>
> I have no idea what to input as the DOMAIN in /etc/koha/koha-sites.conf
> I also don't know what domain to put in /etc/hosts
>
> I have done this, as a guess:
>
> ** /etc/hosts **
> 127.0.0.1 locahost
> 127.0.1.1 ubuntuhost
> 127.0.0.1 library.ubuntuhost
> 127.0.0.1 library-intra.ubuntuhost
>
> ** /etc/koha/koha-sites.conf **
> DOMAIN=""
>
> Now, when I input "192.168.1.68" or "ubuntuhost" in the browser on my 
> windows PC, I get the "it works" message from apache on ubuntu. But if 
> I input "library.ubuntuhost" or "library.ubuntuhost:80" then it times 
> out.
>
> I can ping "library.ubuntuhost" from ubuntu command prompt but not 
> from the windows host machine.
>
> Any help would be much appreciated!
>
> Thanks
> Zac Craven
>
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