Using Parallels to test Web applications in IE

Question

I am developing a Web application in Pylons on the Mac. My development server serves pages to http://127.0.0.1:5000/. Is there any way that I can access this page from Parallels for testing with IE without having to set up a development environment in Windows?

Trinatrinal

Answer 1

The loopback address (127.0.0.1) is only accessible by your local machine. In this case Parallels is considered another (virtual) machine. While Parallels can be configured to use the same IP address as the host operating system, it cannot share the loopback address.

To access pages served on your Mac from Parallels you can change the IP (host) used by Pylons to that of your local network instead of the loopback address. In the development.ini change the host setting.

Marianamariand

Is the IP of my local network the same as the IP of my router? – Trinatrinal

You can find the IP address of your Mac from System Preferences -> Network. But it may be easier to set the IP to 0.0.0.0 so that it will listen on all addresses. Then you might be able to use the name of your mac as Eifion suggests. – Marianamariand

Oh, I see. I set it to my machine's local IP and it works! Thanks. – Trinatrinal

Answer 2

Have you tried using your machine name instead of 127.0.0.1, e.g. http://MyIMac:5000/ ?

Heartbreak

Answer 3

For me the problem was that I forgot to exclude my mac's ip address from the windows browser's proxy settings (I was using a corporate proxy in the browser).

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