Kavi was looking over my shoulder as I tried to get my blog working in a local Docker container. I’ve gotten to the point that the site seems to be up and running in the container, but I can’t seem to get to it from my laptop. So, he wondered why I was putting port 1313 in my URL bar (“localhost:1313”) and then I showed the results of netstat -ant to prove that something should be listening on that port. And we got the IP address for google.com and then put that in Chrome’s URL bar with :80 at the end of it, and magically, it worked. (Other websites did not work, and I explained that most sites will not allow their sites to be accessed via IP address).

I still haven’t figured out why I can’t access the blog running in my container, but I think Kavi’s learning more about networking than I ever did (and I’m hoping that he’ll be able to debug these issues for me… soon enough)

UPDATE: I figured it out. Hugo’s server was listening on localhost inside the container, when it needed to be listening on 0.0.0.0. Adding that as a --bind parameter fixed the issue (though I had to also add --baseURL and --appendPort=false params, which saddened me.)