Laravel running on docker but cannot connect to localhost - laravel

I have been using vessel for my laravel projects on my Windows pc.
Recently I decided to install it on my macbook.
Did everything to the book, all the initializing as such.
My docker container says everything is running, but when I try to go to the webpage to https://localhost, on safari, I get a completely blank page.
I tried going to chrome and it gives me a "HTTP Error 500" but, it there are no server errors because docker is telling me everything is running.
I checked if anything is blocking me on port 80 but nothing besides docker is running.
What else could I do to debug this?

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Localhost refused to connect on WSL2 when accessed via https://localhost:8000/ but works when using internal WSL IP adress

What I'm Trying to Achieve
To access localhost from my local machine during the development of a Symfony web app.
My Environment
WSL2 running on Windows 10
Linux, Apache2, MySQL, PHP-7.4 stack (with Xdebug3 intalled)
Debian 10
Symfony 5.4 (although not sure on if relevant to this problem)
Steps I've Taken
Set up WSL2 according to this Microsoft WSL2 tutorial
Set up LAMP stack according to this Digital Ocean tutorial
Set up Symfony according to this Symfony tutorial
Run the following bash script on startup to start my services and set the host to the virtual WSL IP in my xdebug.ini file
#!/bin/sh
REMOTEIP=`cat /etc/resolv.conf | grep nameserver | sed 's/nameserver\s//'`
sed -i -E "s/client_host=[0-9\.]+/client_host=$REMOTEIP/g" /etc/php/7.4/mods-available/xdebug.ini
service php7.4-fpm start
service apache2 start
service mysql start
Run my Symfony project on the development server using symfony serve -d (Symfony then tells me "The Web server is using PHP FPM 7.4.23 https://127.0.0.1:8000")
Go to https://localhost:8000/ in Chrome where the app is running
What I Expect to Happen
My Symfony web app to be running on https://localhost:8000/ when I visit the URL in my Chrome browser
What Actually Happens
I get "This site can't be reached localhost refused to connect." in the Chrome browser
What I've Tried
This used to happen less frequently and I would give my laptop a restart, repeat the process above, and I could connect via https://localhost:8000/. However, it refuses to connect more regularly now (like 8/10 times I start up for the day)
Connecting to https://127.0.0.1:8000 yields the same result.
Connecting to the site using the internal WSL IP address, found using hostname -I and replacing localhost with this IP (still on port 8000). This is an adequate workaround to use my app, however I am unable to interact with my database via MySQL Workbench without having to set up a new connection, therefore a fix where I can use localhost would be very helpful!
(Based off comments) Only ran symfony serve -d without starting apache and PHP services separately - still sometimes allows connections to localhost but sometimes doesn't work.
Conclusion
The behaviour is odd as it works sometimes but other times it doesn't when the exact same steps are carried out. I am unsure where else to look for answers and I can't seem to find anything online with this same problem. Please let me know if any config files, etc would be helpful. Thank you so much for your help! :)
When it's working normally, as you are clearly aware, the "localhost forwarding" feature of WSL2 means that you can access services running inside WSL2 using the "localhost" address of the Windows host.
Sometimes, however, that feature breaks down. This is known to happen when you either:
Hibernate
Have the Windows "Fast Startup" feature enabled (and it is the default). Fast Startup is a pseudo-hibernation which triggers the same problem.
Typically the best solution is to disable Hibernation and Fast Startup. However, if you do need these features, you can reset the WSL localhost feature by:
Exiting any WSL instances
Issuing wsl --shutdown
Restarting your instance
It's my experience that localhost forwarding will work after that. However, if it doesn't, thanks to #lwohlhart in the comments for mentioning that another thing to try is disabling IPv6 on WSL2, since (I believe) there's a possibility that the application is listening on IPv6 while the Windows->WSL2 connection localhost connection is being attempted on IPv6.
You can disable IPv6 on WSL2 per this Github comment by creating or editing .wslconfig in your Windows user profile directory with the following:
[wsl2]
kernelCommandLine=ipv6.disable=1
A wsl --shutdown and restart will be necessary to complete the changes.
If you find that this works, it may be possible to solve the issue by making sure to either use the IPv4 (127.0.0.1) or IPv6 (::1) address specifically in place of localhost on the Windows side, or by configuring the service to listen on both addresses.
Try to run command netstat -nltp. It shows active addresses and ports. Your nginx process should be run at 0.0.0.0:8000. 0.0.0.0 means the nginx process is available from anywhere.
If your nginx process is ran by any specific ip address, you should access it by that ip address, e.g http://192.168.4.2:8000.

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Everything runs correctly when I start the npm live-server from my laptop, but when I type the address on the iPhone's browser 127.0.0.1:8080 it says the address can't be found.
I remember before that when running the live server from the terminal you can also see the web page from mobile too.
I'm not using file:// to run the page.
Appreciate the help.
Thanks
according to the documentation page, I can see that it seems to work like ng serve, and you need to add the parameter --host 0.0.0.0 to make the server bind to all IPs and not just 127.0.0.1 (which is not reachable from your phone)

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I've managed to create containers for my website and everything works fine.
Content is updated, database is saved to the folder (so kind of persistent), however, I've read that it is possible to automatically start the project containers using integration inside the PhpStorm.
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3) https://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/PhpStorm/Docker+Support+in+PhpStorm
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