Environment:
Main platform: MAC OSX 10.6
Secondary platform via VMWare Fusion: Windows 7 64-bit
Background: I'm running MAMP Pro on the MAC side with a webroot at "/www". I need to test websites in IE thus requiring a Windows installation. I installed XAMPP on my Windows side and changed the apache root directory to "Z:\www", the location of my MAMP webroot which is a shared folder between MAC and Windows.
When I try to access a local site from windows (http://localhost/asite) I get a 403 Forbidden error:
Access forbidden!
You don't have permission to access the requested object. It is either read-protected or not readable by the server.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.
Error 403
localhost
07/30/10 14:21:07
Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.2.14 OpenSSL/0.9.8l mod_autoindex_color PHP/5.3.1
What other configuration changes need to be made for this to work if it will work at all?
Thanks,
Chris
Thanks to those who responded. I did a little research on the types of network connections and here's how I resolved the issue without using XAMPP at all.
To recap, I'm running Win7 on my Mac via VMWare Fusion as a virtual machine. I have MAMP running a local web server on my Mac with a webroot at /www and I want to be able to also access the web server from browsers in Windows.
In short, I want to be able to go to http://localhost/mysite from Safari (Mac) or IE (Windows).
Changed my Fusion Network Adapter to Bridged, since I am working from a home office.
Refreshed my network connections using the ipconfig commands in the command prompt.
Edited my windows hosts file to reflect: 192.168.1.102 localhost
Done and done.
I hope someone else can find this useful.
Chris
Is there any specific reason you're trying to serve your site from XAMPP, rather than just MAMP? I worked in a similar environment a couple of years ago, and I simply set the virtual machine's networking type to NAT (so that the guest has a different IP from the host), and then pointed IE at the IP address of the host running MAMP.
Maybe I didn't quite understand your problem completely, but:
"I need to test websites in IE"
you don't need to setup a Web server to do that...
Keep using Apache on your Mac host and point IE from your Windows VM to the host machine IP, as peterjmag suggested.
Also, wasn't there a Mac version of IE?
Again, my apologies if i misunderstood you - I don't want to sound arrogant;)
"Z:\www ... a shared folder between MAC and Windows"
What's this - a network share? Do you get the same error if you use a local folder in your VM (eg: C:\www)?
Try mounting /www from your VM - go to it's settings > options tab > shared folders. Select Always Enabled. Click Add and browse to your /www host folder. This should make /www accessible in your VM Windows.
Finally, just in case: check Windows permissions on the www folder.
Hope that helps!
Related
My work computer doesn't have a network connection.
But I need to install specific appxs.
I installed Windows Terminal from .msixbundle file.
I installed Ubuntu 20.04 (WSL distro) from .appx file.
They were downloaded and moved to my pc from another pc with internet connection.
When I run one of them an error occurs:
We want to make sure this is you. User interaction is required for authentication.
Or
The network location cannot be reached. For information about network troubleshooting, see Windows Help.
What does it mean? What do I need to do in order to run those apps without internet connection?
I'm a web developer in an office, and I often have to let some other collegues to see the websites I'm working on.
On my mac, I've installed XAMPP and for every site I set up a virtual host, so for example mywebsite.local is available for me.
For my collegues what I do at the moment is, on their hosts file, point mywebsite.local to my Mac IP. Of course it's very annoying.
I was wondering if I could use, locally in my office, my mac as a DNS server for all my collegues, without editing everytime their hosts file.
So, if they looks for mywebsite.local, first they look if it's somehow mapped on my mac, and then they looks on a DNS server.
If they install Bonjour for Windows, mywebsite.local should automatically resolve to your computer.
I have installed Moodle 2.4 server on machine with window 7 by downloading the package available in moodle.org which includes XAMPP server .It is installed properly and is accessible from all client machines with windows operating system. The problem is that when we try to access the server from machines having Ubuntu it is not accessible. Pl help what to do.
You should not use that XAMPP package to install Moodle on a production server. That package is only suitable for "localhost" test installations of Moodle.
Windows 7 is also not suitable as a server operating system.
Also, check that you've got the correct '$CFG->wwwroot' value in your Moodle config.php file. "localhost" won't work.
Please explain what happens when a Ubuntu user tries to access that Moodle site. What happens? Do they get an error message?
I am working on a Meteor website and conveniently, it will run on localhost with the simple command, meteor. However, I want to be able to access this website from other computers on the local network. The main reason I want to do this is for viewing and testing the app on mobile.
I am running Mac Mountain Lion 10.8, and they got rid of some of the convenient Personal Web Sharing pref panes. Everything else I have seen online deals with setting up your own server, but all I want to do is grant access from other local device...
Thanks
Find out your ip address 192.168.1.12 (mac system prefs/network)
start meteor in your project on a port (default 3000)
from another comp on network, browse 192.168.1.12:3000
Im currently on a mac installed, ran and hosted a local website using xampp. i want to access my localhost website from my windows 7 computer
This is not a programming question. You should use google or post this on XAMPP blogs.
But I'm in a good mood, so I'll tell you :)
For this you have to get the IP-Address of your mac. Go to your system preferences -> network. Enter the IP in the browser of your windows machine and voilà. Also, make sure both PCs are in the same network.
EDIT
Forgot the following, you have to grant access to it.
http://www.apachefriends.org/f/viewtopic.php?p=150713