Banging my head on the wall at this stage.... trying to host my Apache site on Ubuntu 12.10 with VirtualBox. Running Windows 8 host.

Things I've done:

• Ensured Apache is listening on ports 80, 443 and 8080 (for thoroughness)

  tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:443             0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3355/httpd      
  tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:8080            0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3355/httpd      
  tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:80              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      3355/httpd      
  tcp        0      0 0.0.0.0:22              0.0.0.0:*               LISTEN      681/sshd 
  

• VM is using bridged network connection

• Assigned a static IP to my Ubuntu VM, which can be accessed fine from within network.
• Forwarded TCP ports 80, 8080, 443 on the static IP of VM on my router
• Given my VM a static NAT Address
• Turned off Ubuntu firewall and router firewall
• Read on forums that my ISP (Eircom) allow port 80 to be used

And I still can't access my site using the WAN/External IP (checked internally and using CanYouSeeMe.org). It says all the ports I mentioned are closed.

I'm really at a loss of what to try next... Am I missing something silly here?

Note: I haven't assigned a static IP address within the router, on within the VM. And DHCP server is enabled. Is that bad?