Friday 4 October 2019

osx snow leopard - Access localhost on Mac OS X from Parallels machine

i need to test my web site, running on a local Mac, under several browsers in Windows.


I use Windows XP, installed in Parallels Desktop.


It would be great, when i will be able to access my http://localhost:3000 from Windows, sitting in virtual environment (Parallels).


How to wire all the stuff up ?




Update:


I figured out, how to access shared web-site on the mac.


I have following settings:


Parallels Desktop -> Preferences -> Network -> Shared Network


"Parallels Shared Networking Adapter #0" i tweaked with ip=192.168.123.1


From WinXP this ip is accessible via ping.


C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping imac.local

Pinging imac.local [192.168.123.1] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 192.168.123.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.123.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.123.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64
Reply from 192.168.123.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=64

When on the Mac i turn the "Shared Web" on, the address "http://imac.local/~AntonAL" will get accessible from WinXP and Mac. Note, that i have set the name of my mac to "iMac", which is equivalent to ip=192.168.123.1


But, the only problem, i can't figure out is unaccessible port 3000.


So, the address "http://imac.local:3000" is still does't work from WinXP. Actually, it is not accessible even from the Mac ... possible i'm doing something wrong.


The question is - which address should i use in WinXP-side, to be able to access "localhost:3000" on the Mac-side? Tried ips of "Parallels Shared Networking Adapter #0", gateway, ip of the Mac, but still no success ...

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