title: VirtualBox Port Forwarding Not Working
body: <p>I have an Ubuntu 10.04 Host running VirtualBox with a Guest Ubuntu Server 10.04 set up.</p>
  
  <p>My host machine is behind a linksys router. I would like to use the VM as a web server (to the outside world). I have NAT networking between the host and guest machines, and used port forwarding (<a href="http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#natforward" rel="nofollow noreferrer">guide here</a>) to foward port 8888 on the host to port 80 on the guest.</p>
  
  <p>I also have my linksys router forwarding port 8888 to my host's IP address.</p>
  
  <p>Now when I go to <a href="http://127.0.0.1:8888" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://127.0.0.1:8888</a> in a browser on the host, I get the expected web page served from the guest.</p>
  
  <p>But if I try to navigate to <a href="http://w.x.y.z:8888" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://w.x.y.z:8888</a> (where w.x.y.z is my router's IP to the outside world), I get a page timeout.</p>
  
  <p>Anyone know what the problem is? </p>