How to Configure Arachni WebUI to listen on system ipaddress

Arachni is a Free/Public-Source Web Application Security Scanner aimed towards helping users evaluate the security of web applications.

Bydefault Arachni listening on the localhost. To force the WebUI to listen on machine ipaddress, start it with the --host parameter as follows.

#arachni_web --host 0.0.0.0

Instead of specifying the host parameter as a command line parameter, it can also be supplied via the system/arachni-ui-web/config.ru file. Add the following line immediately below the comment line at the beginning of config.ru:

#\ --host 0.0.0.0

Now we can simply start with,

#arachni_web