How to use a webserver installed on a guest machine from the host

vmware, webserver

Solution

On your Linux box (the guest), open a terminal, and type: ifconfig

Look at the output, you should see a INET ADDR (or something like that) and it will have your ip address beside it. Something like 192.168.7.10 (this is an example).

Then go back to your host, amd in a web browser type in 'http://(the ip you just found)'

This should connect to your webserver

Problem

I am using VMWare player and I have a webserver installed in my Linux guest machine (Linux Mint with Tomcat). I want to access the webserver from my host machine (Windows 7). What are the steps required? Thank you

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