Nibbles - Initial Foothold

Hi everyone. I’m stuck on this section with Nibbles. I can’t log in to the “host/nibbleblog” the page is showing but it doesn’t let me log in even with the correct credentials so i can’t complete this section without skiping it. It’s just stuck on loading when i hit log in.
I tried to whatweb it and this shows

$whatweb http://10.129.173.223/nibbleblog
http://10.129.173.223/nibbleblog [301 Moved Permanently] Apache[2.4.18], Country[RESERVED][ZZ], HTTPServer[Ubuntu Linux][Apache/2.4.18 (Ubuntu)], IP[10.129.173.223], RedirectLocation[http://10.129.173.223/nibbleblog/], Title[301 Moved Permanently]
ERROR Opening: http://10.129.173.223/nibbleblog/ - Net::ReadTimeout

also curl show that the config.xml file is empty

$curl -s http://10.129.173.223/nibbleblog/content/private/config.xml | xmllint --format -
-:1: parser error : Document is empty

^

gobuster dir doesn’t work on the /nibbleblog

$gobuster dir -u http://10.129.173.223/nibbleblog/ --wordlist /usr/share/dirb/wordlists/common.txt
===============================================================
Gobuster v3.1.0
by OJ Reeves (@TheColonial) & Christian Mehlmauer (@firefart)
===============================================================
[+] Url:                     http://10.129.173.223/nibbleblog/
[+] Method:                  GET
[+] Threads:                 10
[+] Wordlist:                /usr/share/dirb/wordlists/common.txt
[+] Negative Status codes:   404
[+] User Agent:              gobuster/3.1.0
[+] Timeout:                 10s
===============================================================
2023/01/08 13:24:30 Starting gobuster in directory enumeration mode
===============================================================
Error: error on running gobuster: unable to connect to http://10.129.173.223/nibbleblog/: Get "http://10.129.173.223/nibbleblog/": context deadline exceeded (Client.Timeout exceeded while awaiting headers)

I think it’s something wrong with the VM Machine. Any suggestions?