thanks mfillpot it works :)
now I can start going through security and naming instead of using the ipaddress.
topic can be closed as solved

Ben: Yes my ports at the router are open and I direct those ports to the ip-address from my web server.

csorhand: I have connection from my vm to the internet. I just want people to see the websites I place on my webserver. At this moment I can't ping from another computer to the ipaddress from my web server but the other way around does work.
1) I have a dynamic ip on my laptop
2) firewall on laptop is dissabled and the one from the ubuntu web server aswell (ufw and firestarter)
3) VM Workstation 6.5 - 7.0. The network settings are NAT.

mfillpot: all the ports are open on the router. On the local machine (my laptop) how do I open those?

Hi

I'm looking for the code to open my ports from my ftp, ssh and webserver to the internet.
I've tried several things but none of those worked.
I'm running my ftp, ssh and webserver on a virtual machine on my laptop.
I think the ports are 21 (ftp), 23 (ssh) and 80 (web server)
Can someone help me?