# VMWare, Webrick nooby question

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vmware-webrick-nooby-question/155245>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 9, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vmware-webrick-nooby-question/155245 "2008-12-09T20:46:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![ChasManRors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@ChasManRors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ChasManRors)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vmware-webrick-nooby-question/155245/1 "2008-12-09T20:46:47Z")

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RoR vmware question (I have cross posted): Trying to web-browse my  
Webrick server running Llinux on vmware Guest from Windows host.  
Clearly I can’t do an [http://localhost:3000/](http://localhost:3000/). So how can I access my  
Linux Webrick server guest from Windows?

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**Author:** ![ChasManRors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@ChasManRors](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/ChasManRors)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2008, 9:29pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vmware-webrick-nooby-question/155245/2 "2008-12-09T21:29:53Z")

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I assume that with a bridged or host-only setup, you would browse to  
your virtual machine name, not localhost.

If I use a Host-only network…

In the VM, run ifconfig (I use Ubuntu), that reports 192.168.64.128 as  
the IP address of the virtual machine.

In Windows, browse to [http://192.168.64.128:3000](http://192.168.64.128:3000), and presto, the Rails  
app.