New VMware Fusion Test Site - 403 Error

If you have configured your VM Networking for NAT, you may want to change it to BRIDGED networking mode, and then re-try, the new IP Address from your Desktop (MAC OS Host).

So your Mac Host and VM are on the same IP network.

I went into setting and changed the bridged networking section to have wifi selected.  I then got a screen saying new name Wi-Fi, type airport, and then gives an IP number.

This is a different IP number than the VM. Following your statement

*********then re-try, the new IP Address from your Desktop (MAC OS Host)

I tried the ip from the network adapter change and the ip from the ifconfig for eth0 on the VM in this manner.  http://[ip number]/phpMyAdmin but neither one works.

are both your Host (Mac) IP Address and VM IP Address on the same LAN ?

yes, I only have one.  I have a static IP on the router.

so, what are the IP Addresses of the Host and VM ?

I sent them via private message to you.

can both the VM and Host - ping each other ?

for other experts, the IP Addresses are:-

Mac Host - 192.168.0.178
VM - 192.168.0.0.197

(I don't think there is any issues in sharing these, as they are private IPs)

the ping from VM to ip ending in .178 says host unreachable

the ping from desktop to .178 fails

ping from desktop to .197 fails

before we changed it to bridged from share with my Mac I could ping google.com and get yum updates.  Now neither one are working.

checking if httpd was working and saw this

https://gyazo.com/22e17e40870fecc1f5328904d57773e8

okay networking is not working.

or firewalls are enabled.

they aren't on host

iptables - https://gyazo.com/59038b276b88cd2c8fba31c73a43d4af

selinux is disabled

is your Linux VM set to DHCP ?

yes, in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcg-eth0 I have BOOTPROTO = "dhcp" and when I change it off of bridged to "share my mac" it serves up an address.


when I restart the network it shows
https://gyazo.com/e93696987c6a2161d89a827aa38eaa3b

I can ping the VM from the host but not vice versa

Let me clarify,

I can ping the .197 address from the host

but from the VM I can't ping .178 which is the network adapter ip

from the host browser using http://192.168.0.197 I can get the centos test page but when I put in http://192.168.0.197/phpMyAdmin I get the 403 error.

okay, so you have network connectivity between the two computers, confirmed by connection to test page, so Web traffic is working.

inside the VM can you test with a browser?

I suspect you have the wrong URL.

I don't know how to test a browser inside of the VM.  This VM doesn't act like the Windows ones I have set up.  Which I can run a browser in.

so there is no desktop in the VM ?

how did you install phpmyadmin/php ?

this is the distribution I used
http://twiki.org/cgi-bin/view/Blog/BlogEntry201310x2

and I installed the LAMP items via yum

I haven't seen a desktop when I boot up it goes to the command line each time.

okay, so in the www directory, on the VM, there should be a phpmyadmin folder, is it there?

or where is it located ?

it installed it here



/var/lib/phpMyAdmin
/usr/share/phpMyAdmin
/etc/phpMyAdmin

so looking at this is that the problem?

can you confirm, if you make changes to the test page, in apache, you can see those changes.

I created a page and I can see it from the browser.  The test page wasn't in the /var/www/html directory

okay, I'll download and have a look at this precompiled VM, it may not have phpmyadmin.....

I added it by yum so I don't think it will have it included initially.

On my Amazon instance I loaded it via yum too.  I did a search and it puts it in the same place as the VM.

[root@ip-172-31-22-236 ~]# find / -name phpMyAdmin
/usr/share/phpMyAdmin
/var/lib/phpMyAdmin
/etc/phpMyAdmin

I looked at port 80 via telnet and it is says connection times out on port 80

I changed the iptables and I commented out at the last line what was their originally.  I restarted iptables and network and apache but still get same error

https://gyazo.com/33b7909703d5c581c099aac1dc728183

I looked in phpMyAdmin.conf and there is an alias pointing to /phpMyAdmin just like on my instance with Amazon. Is there something that needs to be turned on to honor that alias?

Now you need to give the access in phpMyAdmin.conf located @ /etc/httpd/conf.d/phpmyadmin.conf on centos VM.

Please add  the line there allow from all in phpMyAdmin.conf file.

Regards,
VK

the orignal centos image was missing some key parts so I started over and then the phpMyAdmin worked fine and I was able to connect without getting the 403 error anymore