CouchDB not accessible from the host in a VMware setup

I setup Bitnami's LAMP Stack in a VMware Workstation on windows 7 and then installed CouchDB as per the installation guide. Everything seems to work locally in the VM through SSH.

After hours of looking for answers, I still can't access http://ipaddress:5984/_utils from the host computer. I checked the iptables and all the ports are all opened. I also changed the bind_address to 0.0.0.0 as explained in this serverfault question and still doesn't work. I'm setup the VM to use bridge networking with it's own IP. I also want to note that I can see the VM's apache page from my host when I access http://ipaddress, which tells me the problem开发者_Go百科 might be in ports.

Does anyone know why this could be happening. The browser times out.

P.S I tried installing couchdb in AWS Free Tier but haven't succeeded. There's problems with many dependencies and the RPM package doesn't work.