I just wrote a hello world application with Vaadin. The development was done on windows 10 running on parallels and I left the web service running on the windows virtual machine. I can access the service from a browser on windows through the url: localhost:8080/hello-world. I found out the IP address of the windows virtual machine with ifconfig and, if I type the url: ipaddress:8080/hello-world on a browser running on the mac, it works as well. However, my colleagues on the intranet cannot access the web application through the same url. What am I missing here? Is the service only visible to me? Are there any firewall issues? Setup problems with the parallels virtual machine?
Thanks very much in advance.
I just found the answer, but sidgate, thanks for your help. The bottomline is that I was running the windows virtual machine in shared mode. Apparently, if you do that, the windows virtual machine is in a subnet with your own mac, and the mac is the router. I switched to the bridge method with the default adapter and I then get an ip address on my intranet, which is visible by everyone.
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I have just started using Parallels for Mac, and am attempting to debug a locally running web application on my host MacOS machine.
I have figured out that I can connect to the my host via 10.211.55.2 in the browser in my virtual windows machine.
What I'd like to do is to instead connect via localhost and have this routed through to the 10.211.55.2 ip instead.
I tried editing my windows hosts file with an 10.211.55.2 localhost entry but this made no difference.
Is this possible to do?
localhost is hardcoded in many libraries. In theory it should be possible, but it would break a lot of things, including not being able to boot up the system. Connections to localhost are used frequently for interprocess communication throughout the system, so there's more to it then you using it for testing websites. Just go with another name.
I am hosting a Oracle Linux 6.5 OS using VMWare on my windows 7 laptop. The VM is configured to use NAT networking configuration, and I am able to ping the guest OS successfully from my windows machine. Also, I am able to access internet from within my guest OS.
However, I am unable to access a web application running on port 8080 on a web server hosted within the guest OS using a browser in my host OS. The application is however accessible when accessed from a browser within the guest OS.
Some observations that may be of some use:
1. Neither my laptop, nor the VM have a static IP address.
2. I am able to ping my guest OS from host, and vice versa
3. Firewalls are disabled on both my laptop as well as the guest OS
Any help would be highly appreciated
The reason for the above issue could be mostly because of firewall settings/rules enabled in guest OS OEL. To check the rules you can type iptables -L -n at bash prompt which will display FILTER rules (CHAIN INPUT/OUTPUT/FORWARD).
Adding filters to allow the host to access guest http protocol would make things work. On the other hand, if this is for developmental purposes you can completely disable the firewall filter by saying
service iptables stop. Keep in mind that this is not a safe approach as it exposes your guest to the world without a firewall especially if you are using a bridged network connection.
I have a mac running Lion OS, and Windows 7 Ultimate installed on VMware Fusion
on my Windows machine, I have IIS running and I can access it from my mac browser using the IP address such as:
http://192.168.0.10
I am developing an iPhone app on xcode and connecting to IIS as a server to access MS Server DB for testing.
my problem is that I use my mac on many networks such as Work, Home, MiFi and others
every time I change the network the IP changes and every time I need to access IIS I need to update my server IP in my app.
even on my home netwrok or MiFi the IP is the same every time I connect (Dynamic)
I am thinking to access the IIS using the PC name on my windows 7 machine like this:
http://mypcname
to make easier to test without editing the IP every time.
Can anyone guide me how to do that? I did search around many sites and forums to figure it out with no success, maybe I am missing something.
Thanks in advance.
I'm running the app engine devserver on localhost:8080, and want to access it from ie7 running on parallels.
I've tried all of the tips here:
How Do I Access The Host Machine From The Guest Machine?
And they seem like they should work, particularly accessing via the gateway ip address. I've also
sudo ipfw add allow tcp from 8080 to 8089
for good measure. Still no dice. I can access the external internet from ie7. The connection settings on parallels are set to 'Shared networking'. I'm out of ideas.
You're not by any chance running it on localhost/127.0.0.1 on OS X and are trying to get at it using localhost/127.0.0.1 from XP?
If so, that's likely to be your problem - I would seriously doubt that the two instances of the OS share the loopback interface as that's specific to the OS.
I'd run it on OS X using the local IP and not localhost, then use the IP address to access it from XP. This should work if the XP box can see the host.
I asked a very similar question not too long ago and got some great responses. I've made it pretty far but still can't quite get things to talk. What I have is a PC running IIS and a web service inside of that. I'm trying to get the iPhone simulator on my Mac to be able to see this web service. I can ping my PCs local IP address from the Mac just fine, it's clearly alive and on the network. However, no matter what URL I enter into Safari the web service will not appear.
Any suggestions?
Thank you very much in advance.
Is this a web service or web application?
One fair possibility is that your Windows firewall could be blocking access to port 80. If it is, open your Windows firewall settings and add an exception for port 80 (Control Panel -> Windows Firewall -> Exceptions).
You might try using telnet on your Mac to test connecting to the web service/application.