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I have a PHP application running locally using MAMP Pro. I am in the process of conducting cross browser testing and I need to use IE. I have IE9 and IE10 setup as virtual machines (from http://www.modern.ie/) but I am unable to access localhost on these. Am I correct in thinking I need to find the IP address and access it that way or is there something else I'm missing?

Nathan Dawson
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  • Would you like to share your `MAMP` in LAN/WAN? –  Feb 03 '14 at 09:54
  • Yes preferably just LAN. On my mac I've setup a virtual host, http://example.dev, so the site would need to be accessible through this address or it would redirect. – Nathan Dawson Feb 03 '14 at 09:55
  • Unless you run MAMP in all the VMs, it will not be localhost for the VMs that you're running IE in. You need to use the specific IP of the server VM. – Barmar Feb 03 '14 at 09:56

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If they are on virtual machines, then they are not on the same machine. They have their own network interfaces and their own IP addresses (including their own loopback interfaces).

You'll need to use either the IP address (or a hostname that maps on to it) facing the virtual machine on the virtual network or the LAN IP address (if the network is configured to allow that) instead of localhost.

ifconfig should tell you what ip addresses are bound to your Mac.

Quentin
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search for .htosts in windows folder and put there your localhost and ip or try accesing the localhost machine by typing the routed ip or something like that

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I would like to check stackoverflow post to share your server in LAN. Though, this answer based on Windows, Hope it will gather some knowledge to do this on MAC.

Open, httpd.conf file from apache conf folder and modify permission to access MAMP from virtual machine.

There are few consideration-

  1. Allow your IP-Address by modifying httpd.conf to access from virtual machine
  2. Give the phpmyadmin folder permission to access from virtual machine
  3. Give the Directory permission to access from virtual machine
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