Can't access webpack-dev-server :8080 from Vagrant

[joeframbach]

Steps:

1. vagrant init "ubuntu/trusty64".
2. Modify Vagrantfile to add port 8000 and 8080 to be accessible by host.
3. vagrant up
4. vagrant ssh
5. git clone github...react-isomorphic-starterkit, cd, npm install -g, npm install
6. Instead of npm run watch, which will fail because there is no browser/VT available, run:
   • npm run watch-client # in one tab
   • npm run start # in another tab

Result: http://localhost:8000/ looks great and shows the static result correctly, but throws a 404 on http://localhost:8080/dist/client.js

Problem: http://localhost:8080/dist/client.js can't be found by the host. If I instead run python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080 or http-server -p8080, then http://localhost:8080/dist/client.js is found. It just looks like webpack-dev-server isn't listening to requests from the host?

[joeframbach]

Solved!

I added host: "0.0.0.0" to the config.devServer config in webpack.client-watch.js.

[Jakobud]

I have the same issue. I've never heard of webpack.client-watch.js. What is that? I am new to Webpack and I've only been using webpack.config.js so far...

[brainthinks]

@Jakobud - when you run webpack from the terminal, you can specify a file that isn't named webpack.config.js - webpack CLI docs.

[ZhangHanDong]

it does work:

'''
webpack-dev-server --host 0.0.0.0
'''