New virtualBox HA install: connection refused

I am new at this and this is my first install of HA. I am using a windows box with virtual box. I followed the steps at the installation page and everything installed without a hicup but I am not sure what is wrong as HA is not accessible via IP:8132. I can ping the IP, and I can see it in the router but cannot get the HA GUI. I am able to login as root at the server and have applied the fix that corrects the date but the problem is still there.
HA seems to running as I am able to interact with some basic commands. I was connected originally through wifi then I thought that might be the problem so I switched to ethernet. I was able to ping in both modes.
Any ideas would be appreciated to get this setup running on the GUI.