Connecting to WSL2 server via local network

Question

I'm developing a rails app using WSL2/Ubuntu on my Windows 10 machine, which is great! The problem is I can't connect to my server from another computer in the same network.

For further clarity, I am running a Puma server on localhost:3000

I have tried the following:

1. Directly connecting to the IP address assigned to Ethernet adapter vEthernet (WSL) -> 172.26.208.1:3000
2. Directly connecting to the host machine's IPv4 address -> 192.168.0.115
3. Adding a firewall exception (using Bitdefender)
4. Binding the IPs above rails s -b 172.26.208.1 -p 3000

None of the above have worked thus far... What I'd like to do is:

• Test the website on another laptop/tablet/phone
• Use VScode from another computer

Is there anything I'm missing to at least see the website correctly? (and any comments on the VScode part would be appreciated)

Answer 1

See this video, it helped me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCK3easuYm4

netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=<port-to-listen> listenaddress=0.0.0.0 connectport=<port-to-forward> connectaddress=<forward-to-this-IP-address>

for example

netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=3000 listenaddress=0.0.0.0 connectport=3000 connectaddress=172.30.16.3

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