title: Firebase serve from vagrant localhost:5000
body: <p>I'm running vagrant/ubuntu 16.04 on mac os high sierra. I have set port forwarding and symlink to awesome.local.com. Basic node.js web app works perfectly and can be viewed on mac chrome browser pointing to awesome.local.com:3000</p>
  
  <p>I want to develop firebase in this environment the same way, and was able to set-up the CLI and logged in fine.</p>
  
  <p>Going through the Firebase Web Codelab: <a href="https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/firebase-web/index.html?index=..%2F..%2Findex#0" rel="noreferrer">https://codelabs.developers.google.com/codelabs/firebase-web/index.html?index=..%2F..%2Findex#0</a></p>
  
  <p>When running </p>
  
  <pre><code>$ firebase serve
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Looks like everything is running without error (I did debug):</p>
  
  <pre><code>hosting: Local server: http://localhost:5000
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I go to the browser and point to awesome.local.com:5000 I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>This site can’t be reached
  
  awesome.locl.com refused to connect.
  Search Google for awesome.local.com:5000
  ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>rebuilt dev environment</li>
  <li>reinstalling everything</li>
  <li>other tutorials</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>Thanks for any help with this.</p>