VMware Fusion + MAMP + Wordpress + Internet Explorer

[StephenMeehan80]

I was hoping some one could help me with this.

First up VMware Fusion is amazing! It works really well.

I've looked though many posts on this site and others, but I am unable to get this to work.

I want to locally develop my Wordpress websites (on my Mac) and test them in Internet Explorer (6,7,8) on Windows XP.

I can get the MAMP welcome screen to show in Windows XP, so I know VMWare is doing it's thing.

The local URL for my site (on my Mac) is:

http://d3creative:8888/

But the local URL under VMware/Internet Explorer is:

http://192.168.2.1:8888/d3creative/

This is the only way I can get it to show up, problem is all the CSS styles are referencing the local Mac URL (http://d3creative:8888/)

So understandably the CSS isn't showing up.

Is there a way to tell Windows that "http://192.168.2.1:8888/d3creative/" should equal "http://d3creative:8888/"

I've tried editing the "hosts" file within in Windows XP and I've rebooted after making any changes, but nothing is working.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Stephen Meehan

[dp_fusion]

What does the host table entry look like? It should be:

192.168.2.1 d3creative

And d3creative should match the hostname in the httpd.conf file (assuming apache).

[PaulSvirin]

Could you post the ipconfig output also?

Also try running nslookup for d3creative

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[StephenMeehan80]

Hi All

I've answered this quesition!

Checkout the solution here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2328383/wordpress-vmware-css-path-problem/2341949#2341949