Solution to the VMWare/MAMP visibility issue:

SooTyLaD · 27 May 2008 at 15:21

hi guys,

as some of you may know, getting your VMWare Windows to see what is being served on the OS X MAMP server doesn't work, but i have a solution for those of you who would like to be able to see the mac hosted stuff from within windows for cross-browser checks and the like:

in your emulated windows, go to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts (no extension)...

in this file you will see the line:

127.0.0.1 localhost

just add another line something like this:

192.168.0.2 mamphost

and it works

- in IE navigate to http://mamphost:8888 and you'll see the mac hosted page...

i have my VMWare network connection bridged by the way, so it is essentially a separate entity on the network...

hope this helps some people

Sic · 27 May 2008 at 15:37

heh, I just solved this this morning, weird. Only problem is that I have about 15 virtual hosts that I have to set up, but I haven't found a way to do that successfully yet :/

SooTyLaD · 27 May 2008 at 18:10

cool, well if you find a more re-usable solution on the server side or whatever, then post it up on this thread

the thing i dont get is why http://192.168.0.2:8888 doesn't work, but http://mamphost:8888 does when set up as above... isn't it the same :confused:

ahh well, important thing is it works, but if anyone know the answer to why the ip doesn't work i'd be interested to hear

ringo747 · 29 May 2008 at 14:16

excellent - thanks for sharing this

ringo747 · 29 May 2008 at 19:07

I take it this works across a LAN too?

Sic · 29 May 2008 at 20:51

should do, just set the hosts file to forward the name mamphost to the required IP

ringo747 · 29 May 2008 at 22:19

cheers will give that a go. I have my ip addresses linked to specific machines so they don't change so it shouldn't be a problem then.