MAMP

[rbadesign]

Hi,

Surfing on my PHP/MySQL server on Mac

As a webdesigner, I plan to use Fusion to check my designs trough IE7.

How can I reach my localhost from my virtual machine ?

Thx for your help,

Best Regards

[objectcentral · Accepted solution]

Use the Mac Network Utility (in Applications/Utilities) to find the Mac's IP address, and use that directly from the VM.

You can also goto http://dyndns.com and set up a mapping address (such as: myownmachine.selfip.com - there's lots of choices) that will dynamically map a real web address to the IP of your machine. This is a bit non-trivial - you have to set up a program on you machine (or setup your router/gateway) to notify dyndns.com of your current IP address, which usually changes at the whim of your ISP. And if you are connected to the web via a router, your Mac's IP won't be the same as the IP you need to tell dyndns.com about, and you have to map things - but in the end, you have a cool way to get to your machine from anywhere. This isn't a complete howto of dyndns.com, but just to let you know the capability. The service is free (with some restrictions), or really cheap for full service.

Hope that was your question...

[rbadesign]

Thx a lot, the IP solution functionned perfectly...

I can now keep on now.

[jazzerbobby]

Hey there,

I'm trying this on a new MacBook Pro (10.5). I can navigate to the PHP file I need to run but I see the PHP code in the browser, rather than it's output.

I've turned on web sharing in system prefs, set MAMP apache document root to: /Users/computername/Sites and am calling the file through a browser with this URL structure: http://ipaddress/~computername/file.php

MAMP has it's green lights on for both Apache & SQL.

I've missed something here, or got hold of the wrong end of the stick... what's my mistake?

Cheers

JB

[admin]

What does this have to do with Fusion? I mean, you're welcome to ask and maybe someone can help, but...

[jazzerbobby]

Sorry, should've mentioned I'm using Fusion to run XP with Leopard.

[admin]

Err, still not clear. What part of this is in XP and what part is in Leopard? Have you tested the site from the environment containing the server?

[jazzerbobby]

Ah, ok, I've got MAMP running in Leopard, and the PHP files are also on the Leopard side.

Using a browser on the Leopard side, and the standard MAMP URL structure ( http://localhost:8888/site/file.php ) everything checks out as per usual.

On both the Leopard and XP side, using the Mac's IP address ( http://ipaddress/site/file.php ), the browser returns unprocessed PHP code. It's as if MAMP is being ignored???

[dp_fusion]

In the httpd server is there a virtual host defined? If so is that virtual hostname and IP in the Windows host table or in DNS?