Vagrant running DSTK refuses connections at port 8080 - macos

I'm very new to the land of virtual machines and vagrant, so please forgive my general ignorance about all of this.
The other day, I downloaded DSTK vagrant box and followed the instructions on the documentation page to get it set up so I could run many, many thousands of requests through it on my local machine rather than bombarding the public server (and also, it should be faster; and also, DSTK is down at the moment so it was the only option).
After many hours of waiting for vagrant to add and init the box on my tired old hard drive, it worked! I used curl to make a few requests, got the expected responses, and patted myself on the back. I closed my terminal and put away my computer and drank beer.
... And then, the next morning, this happened:
$ curl -d "Joe Biden" "localhost:8080/text2people"
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 8080: Connection refused
I can't work out why. I tried vagrant suspend; vagrant up. Same thing. vagrant halt; vagrant up. Same thing. When I've halted vagrant and run 'vagrant up' again, this appears in the readout, which makes me think it ought to be working.
==> default: Forwarding ports...
default: 80 => 8080 (adapter 1)
default: 22 => 2222 (adapter 1)
I can run vagrant ssh and get in, look around, and I see that all the files are in the right right place.
I suppose I could remove the box and re-add it, but it really did take hours to add and init and now I'm running up against a deadline where I need to it work, and I imagine there is a very simple thing of which I am not aware that is causing my problem. Google has thus far been unhelpful, probably because of how unfamiliar I am with vagrant, generally.

I have just encountered the same problem, in my case the solution was to ensure that the following line is not commented on the Vagrantfile:
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080, host_ip: "127.0.0.1"

So it's not a problem with vagrant or virtualbox at all.
It turns out I just didn't stop to think about whether curl could be the culprit, and when I got around to this again, fixing it was as simple as curl "127.0.0.1:8080/...". Apparently curl (or at least the native Mac OSX implementation) doesn't like localhost.
I did try to Google about it for a few minutes, though, and I came across my own un-answered question, which was sort of a bummer—so in case anybody else ever has this problem, here's your fix.
curl "localhost:8080/text2people" -d "Joe Biden"
curl: (7) Failed to connect to localhost port 8080: Connection refused
curl "127.0.0.1:8080/text2people" -d "Joe Biden"
[
{
"title": "",
"gender": "m",
"start_index": 0,
"first_name": "Joe",
"end_index": 9,
"surnames": "Biden",
"ethnicity": {
"percentage_american_indian_or_alaska_native": 0.0,
"rank": 114852,
"percentage_two_or_more": 0.0,
"percentage_of_total": 5.0e-05,
"percentage_hispanic": 0.0,
"percentage_white": 96.45,
"percentage_black": 0.0,
"percentage_asian_or_pacific_islander": 0.0
},
"matched_string": "Joe Biden"
}
]

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Trying to figure out where ssh port forwarding is configured in vagrantfile

I'm trying to learn Vagrant, Ansible, and Jenkins, so I was super stoked when I came across this repo. A lot of the code is out of date so I've spent my time updating things and it is almost running perfect. The one issue I can't figure out is how/where he is defining the port forwarding for SSH.
For example, when I boot up the nfsserver, I see this line:
nfsserver.sample.com: 22 (guest) => 2222 (host) (adapter 1)
But when I boot up the nfsclient, I see this line:
nfsclient.sample.com: Fixed port collision for 22 => 2222. Now on port 2200.
I've looked through all of his files (even used grep -r) and for the life of me, I can't figure out where he's defining these values.
I found this article that mentions the config.vm.network, but I don't see that called anywhere in the Vagrantfile I'm working with.
I'd appreciate any help in figuring out where this is defined so I can change the values. I (and the others I want to show this to) already have 2222 mapped.
This is just the default behaviour of vagrant, it is not from your configuration file.
since you run multiple VM and for each of the guest VM you want to forward the ssh port (22) on the host, the default value for the host is 2222. The first VM you boot takes this value. But afterwards for following VM which want to forward their 22 port to the 2222 host port, it is not possible as host 2222 is already bound (to the 1st VM) vagrant is then using other values (by default it is using the 2200..2250 range but you can configure that - see link to doc)
This is probably better explained in the Port Collisions and Correction part of the vagrant doc.

vagrant ports report in use after reload

I have a few vagrant VMs (both on Mac and windows, all running linux). I have port forwarding defined like this in the Vagrant file:
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 9007
The first time I do a vagrant up it works fine. But then when I do a vagrant reload or vagrant halt followed by vagrant up I get this message:
Vagrant cannot forward the specified ports on this VM, since they
would collide with some other application that is already listening
on these ports. The forwarded port to 9007 is already in use
on the host machine.
To fix this, modify your current project's Vagrantfile to use another
port. Example, where '1234' would be replaced by a unique host port:
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 80, host: 1234
Sometimes, Vagrant will attempt to auto-correct this for you. In this
case, Vagrant was unable to. This is usually because the guest machine
is in a state which doesn't allow modifying port forwarding. You could
try 'vagrant reload' (equivalent of running a halt followed by an up)
so vagrant can attempt to auto-correct this upon booting. Be warned
that any unsaved work might be lost.
Then I have to change the port to bring up the VM, which is a pain. I have checked with netstat and lsof, and nothing seems to be using the port. I though it was perhaps a timing issue, and after a while I could use the port, but even after waiting many hours I still get the error.
This happens in both the Mac and Windows environments. Is there some setting that would allow me to reuse the ports?
I generally use static IP to avoid issues with port forwarding. Vagrant has an auto_correct feature to help fix that.
from vagrant forwarded port docs
It is common when running multiple Vagrant machines to unknowingly
create forwarded port definitions that collide with each other (two
separate Vagrant projects forwarded to port 8080, for example).
Vagrant includes built-in mechanism to detect this and correct it,
automatically.
Port collision detection is always done. Vagrant will not allow you to
define a forwarded port where the port on the host appears to be
accepting traffic or connections.
Port collision auto-correction must be manually enabled for each
forwarded port, since it is often surprising when it occurs and can
lead the Vagrant user to think that the port was not properly
forwarded. Enabling auto correct is easy:
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080,
auto_correct: true
end
The final :auto_correct parameter set to true tells Vagrant to auto
correct any collisions. During a vagrant up or vagrant reload, Vagrant
will output information about any collisions detections and auto
corrections made, so you can take notice and act accordingly.

Vagrant Warning: Connection refused. Retrying

Testing default example
$ vagrant init hashicorp/precise32
$ vagrant up
My box:
Windows 8.1
VirtualBox 5.0.2
Vagrant 1.7.4
Intel i7-4700MQ CPU witch seems to have Intel® Virtualization Technology (VT-x) http://ark.intel.com/products/75117/Intel-Core-i7-4700MQ-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_40-GHz
I know this is common error but after trying everything I still cannot make it work
While VM shows:
And I can log in successfully:
Firewall / Antivirus turned off.
Hyper-V is not installed
I have tried connecting via putty to 127.0.0.1 2222
EDIT:
Vagrantfile (I have removed commented out lines)
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
config.vm.box = "hashicorp/precise32"
end
This is what vagrant ssh does... nothing. And vagrant reload stuck on same issue.
This happens with Vagrant from time to time with the first spin up. After it does that it will timeout and drop you back at the prompt, go vagrant ssh, it will let you in. If it does not go vagrant reload and it will restart the vm. This occurs because the vagrant images have dns turned off so it takes a while to resolve the connection. Again, this sometimes occurs on the first up after you download it and spin it up.
I suspect this could be a misconfigured VBox guest.
I suppose you could try making sure that NAT and port forwarding are enabled in the settings of your VM, and if they aren't, you could enable it manually: in the VirtualBox Graphical Manager, select the machine, click on settings, click on network at the right of the popup, check all the adapters and make sure that the adapter that is "attached to NAT" is enabled. Also, check the port forwarding settings. You can also access the network settings when you are running the VM, from the buttons at the bottom/left (the third button in your second pic, from left to right).
Something that I found out was the case for me after multiple destroys/reebots: check if you have an SSH agent running with a key loaded (like Pageant for PuTTY).
In my case having another SSH key loaded with Pageant (instead of the one configured for Vagrant) was conflicting with the authentication process, which resulted in endless "Connection refused. Retrying" and ultimately in me being unable to use Vagrant.
The solution is to either
Load the appropriate key in Pageant
Close pageant (what I usually do, as it's faster in my case)
Hope this helps someone out there!
here are a few things I would try (and I do understand you might have tried a lot of this and it might not solve your issues but just in case) :
follow the steps from https://www.hanselman.com/blog/SwitchEasilyBetweenVirtualBoxAndHyperVWithABCDEditBootEntryInWindows81.aspx to completely disable Hyper-V (not sure its enough from windows features - and even though you're using a 32-bit box)
not sure if you enabled the gui mode when you logged into the vm from virtual box or you just opened it after, but enable the option and check if nothing is blocking during the startup
config.vm.provider :virtualbox do |vb|
vb.gui = true
end
use another ssh port (even though it does not mention there is a collision) you can try another port
config.vm.network :forwarded_port, guest: 22, host: 2522, auto_correct: false, id: "ssh"
see after vagrant up if you can connect with putty.
optionally, you can run vagrant up --debug to get more information about the error, you will see where it loops/error and give the output of that for others on SO to comment
EDIT
Giving another look, I thought the issue was about connection timeout but it is connection refused the message says
SSH username: vagrant
SSH auth method: password
but you're not passing any password in the Vagrantfile you show. Just add
Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
config.vm.box = "hashicorp/precise32"
config.ssh.username = "vagrant"
config.ssh.password = "vagrant"
end
I would recommend to use ssh-key as it is a bit more simple to use.

Vagrant port forwarding not working on Mavericks

I'm using a vagrant Geodjango box and port forwarding is not working for me.
On the box, I have run:
python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000
But http://localhost:8000 and http://localhost:4567 both find nothing on the host machine.
On the Vagrant box, curl -v 'http://localhost:8000/' gives the usual:
<h2>Congratulations on your first Django-powered page.</h2>
which suggests that Django is running okay. But on the host machine, trying curl -v 'http://localhost:8000/' gives the following output:
curl: (7) Failed connect to localhost:8000; Connection refused
My Vagrantfile has the following port forwarding set up:
config.vm.forward_port 8000, 4567
Disabling the Mac's firewall does not help and stopping Apache makes no difference. I have tried running lsof -i :8000 on the host machine and there is no output, so I figure nothing is using the port.
Can anyone suggest anything?
I had the same issue on Yosemite and none of the ports were forwarding. Disabling the Firewall filter on the guest machine helped:
sudo service iptables stop
Good to see you figured it out yourself.
Just want to add my 2 cents, in V2 Vagrantfile, the port forwarding code block is like below, try to use the new ones so as to avoid port conflicts (back in v1 I always got confused which is which).
config.vm.forward_port 8000, 4567 is forwarding guest port 8000 to host 4567, not the other way around.
In V2 format, it looks like below, which is clearer from my opinion
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080
end

Vagrant Port Forwarding on Mac OS X Lion

I've been struggling trying to connect to a centos 6.4 vm using Vagrant.
I'm using salt as a provisioning agent and I have installed apache,php,mysql packages successfully.
When i ssh into the box apache is running fine. I added an index.html file in /var/www and I get the contents back when I curl localhost:80
Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
## Chose your base box
config.vm.box = "centos63"
config.vm.box_url = ""
## For masterless, mount your salt file root
config.vm.synced_folder "salt/roots/", "/srv/"
## Use all the defaults:
config.vm.provision :salt do |salt|
salt.verbose = true
salt.run_highstate = true
salt.minion_config = "salt/minion"
end
end
Vagrant::Config.run do |config|
config.vm.forward_port 80, 8080
config.vm.share_folder "mypath", "/var/www/leo", "."
end
I ran sudo lsof -i :8080 on my local machine and gave me no results. I also cleared the iptable config in the guest machine with iptables -F. When I curl the guest machine
curl -v 'localhost:8080'
* About to connect() to localhost port 8080 (#0)
* Trying ::1...
* Connection refused
* Trying 127.0.0.1...
* Connection refused
* Trying fe80::1...
* Connection refused
* couldn't connect to host
* Closing connection #0
curl: (7) couldn't connect to host
Do I need guest additions installed? I looked around on how to install this but I'm not sure if it has to be installed on the host or the guest. Not sure what else to try.
What you are trying to do here isn't possible just using vagrant without running vagrant as root. You can run Vagrant as root i believe but VirtualBox won't agree with that. You can continue to use a port number or if you want or need to use port 80 there is a way.
I had this issue when a client of mine asked me to do a Wordpress Multisite setup. With Wordpress MS you can't have port numbers in the URL b/c some of the URL mapping will not work correctly. I was surprised when I found that out and didn't want to go back to using a program like MAMP.
Anyway here are two ways to achieve this goal (neither are very hard). I'm a Mac user so these are Mac specific Answers, I will see if there is a Windows version and update my answer when I can test it to make sure (see below, there is a way).
Way #1 (Mac IP Firewall Utility):
In your vagrant file
config.vm.forward_port 80, 8080
config.vm.forward_port 443, 8443
Thats pretty normal.
Now open up terminal and you can use the ipfw utility
sudo ipfw add 100 fwd 127.0.0.1,8080 tcp from any to me 80
sudo ipfw add 101 fwd 127.0.0.1,8443 tcp from any to me 443
Now that cmd is not permanent so you would have to re-run the cmd if you restarted your machine. You can make it permanent though and I am including a link below that will explain the rest of way #1.
Web Development on Port 80 and 443 in Vagrant
Way #2 (Mac POW and Anvil):
If you don't have Pow yet, get it! It's a really cool app.
Install Pow and Anvil, you can find Anvil there and you can find Pow there.
You can read the docs on how to set those up but don't pay attention to the "static" and "rack" sites part, you need this part.
You will be using Port Proxying through Pow to take the incoming traffic from mycoolsite.dev and forward it to the virtual machine like mycoolsite.dev:8080 and then the virtual machine will forward 8080 to 80 and back up the line your content will come.
After you install Anvil/Pow and get them set up run this line:
echo 8080 > ~/.pow/mycoolsite
Then click Anvil in the task bar (you may have to refresh it or close and reopen) and turn the site on, thats it, what?? Really? Pow and Anvil rock!!
So there are two ways I have found, I'm sure that there are some things you can do with your Hosts file and I used to do that a bunch. However, these other ways that are available really make it easy to forget about that pesky hosts file.
Note for Windows Users (and Mac users that don't like the first 2 ways): You can use Vagrant Host Manager, you can find out how to set it up here on github. It is a vagrant plugin and basically will edit your hosts file for you, all you do is your vagrantfile config and you are good to go after that. I just tested it on Windows 7 and it worked there so it should be good, if you have any issues just look through the docs on github or file an issue for the Vagrant Host Manager team to review.
I changed the guest port to 5656 and it worked. When running lsof -i :8080 I didn't see any results so i figured nothing was using that port maybe I was wrong.

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