MAMP access over local network - mamp-pro

I have MAMP Pro 4 running on a Macbook Pro, with virtual hosts. It's working fine. I want to be able to access it from other devices on my local network in order to test various browser / os combinations. All the articles and posts I have found online are for earlier versions, and or don't seem to work, or require additional software, ... I know this is easy -- I had it working a few years ago, but I don't recall how I did it. Your help will be appreciated.

You can simply configure you projects host:

Try: http:// ip-address-of-your-MAMP-installation:8080
if it connects, fine is working.
Now the domain names. Because your are running locally and your test domains will not be resolved/routed, you need to change the "hosts" file.
Use the other Mac from where you want test.
Select "Go to Folder" and enter "/etc", there is a file called "hosts". Open it with a text editor (Wrangler,TextMate...)
Then add a line at the end:
Save it (requires the admin password).
Now enter "http:// name of the domain:8080" and it should connect you to the MAMP domain.
A more elegant way is to install a local DNS server, but that's a complete different story.
Greetings,
Peter

External network access to phpmyadmin has to be allowed specifically.
This is what I used a long time ago.

A simple solution is to use the network name of your macbook.
You can set it in the system settings.
Let say that your macbook's network name is my-macbook
Then, to acess the served website / phpMyadmin, you can simply type my-macbook.local:8888 (assuming that Mamp serves on the port 8888).

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Installing Wamp on a Network Drive

Ok, I have a quick question to ask all the veteran Wamp users on this board.
At work, we are currently working on a web application. We are trying to use Wamp to design everything, but we have a problem. All the computers right now have wamp installed to the default location (C:/wamp).
Our problem is, we all want to have access to the same MySQL database so we can edit it at the same time. Right now, only one person can edit it at a time to prevent losing the work of someone else.
When done, we just dump the mySQL folder onto a network drive so whoever wants to edit it next can take it and use it.
This isn't very time efficient, so we're wondering if its possible to install Wamp directly to a network drive in some way. We tried doing it just now but we can't get Wamp to start services.
So any type of advice will be helpful
i think these two thing would help you :
1: install wamp in only one system then in apache configuration file listen to his lan ip in order to others can access it in this way you have just one database server
2: as you've installed wamp to all systems choose one system's database as main and in mysql configuration define a new server wich server's ip is that system's lan ip
then users instead of using localhost for connecting to mysql will use that ip

Remote access for Geoserver...Local host only

I am a GIS tech trying to get migrate to Geoserver, unfortunately I am not very savvy on web hosting.
I installed the Windows version 2.3.1.
I was able to build by map and access it through localhost:8080\geoserver\www\
I take that to mean that the jetty server it working.
I understand that I should be able to replace my local IP address where "localhost" is and be able to access it from another computer via Http.
I can't figure out the next step. I have found great tutorials on every part of geoserver process except this. And the user guide does not get into this either.
My set up: Cable Modem > Router > PC with Geoserver
What I have tried: Setting up a virtual server on my router. I have tried changing by router to inbound port 8080 to private port 8080
I also tried 80 to 8080
and 80 to 80
I also tried windows firewall exception. and turning off windows firewall.
I read about using appache tomcat but I have not installed it because it seems that jetty is working (at least as a local host) and I don't want to put another program on 8080. And to my understanding it can work stand alone but I really honestly don't know no.
I am must be missing some vital piece of information on how to do this. I am hoping it is just so basic that it wasn't worth mentioning on tutorials.
Thanks
Karin
This would be a GeoServer configuration question, but since its deployed in jetty the solution is likely in the underlying jetty configuration. That being said it is a guess on my part (the jetty side of things) how they set up this distribution, but if you find a jetty.xml file, perhaps under an /etc directory then you should be able to edit that file and set a proper host in the configuration.
Seriously though, this has to be a pretty common GeoServer question so I bet they have some documentation floating around for setting this properly in their software distribution.
http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/webadmin/basics.html
That seems to indicate it might be dependent on your container configuration, in which case look through how ever they are configuring jetty for a Host setting that is likely hardcoded to 'localhost'

How to set up Micro CloudFoundry on Windows

tldr; This question was to get help setting up Micro Cloud Foundry on Windows XP behind a corporate firewall as an innovation-demonstration project for a Fortune 500 IT departent. Basically, the project stalled, despite this stackoverflow page - the magic wasn't strong enough. I am accepting #DanHigman answer below, but if anyone sees this and can provide a simple straight-forward answer, by all means...
Can anyone provide a clear step-by-step on setting up MCF on a Windows (XP in my case) machine behind a corporate firewall, for demostrating the feasibility of PaaS in the corporate IT world?
My VM is installed and running and I can use the menu ok. I have vmc working. I have a test Node.js server app, that works on local, ready to push. But I can't get past that stage.
The firewall gave me trouble so I lowered my goal to just work offline. I followed the instructions noted below as best I could, but often the instructions are mac oriented - I would like them for a Windows command line (especially SSH tunneling):
http://blog.cloudfoundry.com/2011/09/08/working-offline-with-micro-cloud-foundry/
http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20332921-micro-cloud-foundry-trouble-shooting-help
This blogger may have half-way covered my problem doing the SSH tunnel settings, but all it gives is "use Putty" - more detail would help:
http://support.cloudfoundry.com/entries/20419943-using-micro-cloud-locally
Also, whenever the vmc obviously gets an error or other message, it only outputs the following in the command line:
vmc target http://api.vcap.me
<<<
[200, "<html><body>SNP/2.0/102/Unknown Command 'info'</body></html>\r\n\r\n", {}
]
>>>
Thanks for any help. BTW - I know I could do this on my mac, the big obstacle is the windows and firewall environment.
Update:
#Dan and #ebottard: Thanks to your help, I'm almost there. ping is working now, hosts file seems right, but the vmc target api.vcap.me still does not find the VM at that 192.168.253.128 IP - even tho ping does. In the first link above, Martin wrote the following, but assuming we are doing it on a mac:
After the update is complete, you will need to make some changes on your local system. What you will need to do is to set up an SSH tunnel to access your Micro Cloud Foundry VM (note that you will need to supply the IP address in the command below with the actual IP of your VM, which is displayed in the console).
sudo ssh -L 80:192.168.168.149:80 vcap#192.168.168.149
Password:
vcap#192.168.168.149's password:Â
The first password being prompted is the sudo password for your machine, as it is needed to open port 80 which requires root privileges. The second password is the vcap user password which you entered during the initial configuration of your Micro Cloud Foundry.
I need to have these instructions translated into Windows, and all I have to go on is that I might use puTTy (which I have downloaded) to do it. Any more ideas?
Looks like you're running an application on your Windows machine called "Snarl" (a poor Windows-based clone of the OS 10 app Growl :-p). It looks like it's interfering with communication to the MCF intstance, close it and have another try.

Mac OS X web sharing and Django

I created a web app with Django and I have it running on localhost (http://127.0.0.1:8000/), my question is, how can I make it available to the world, using Mac OS X's web sharing or something?
Thanks!
While you start the server specify the public ip or for any ip use 0.0.0.0
Example:
sudo python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:80
If you start your application without ip and port its bind only for loopback which is 127.0.0.1 and will not accessible in your network.
First off, I would strongly suggest you not to serve a website from your Mac. It's a really bad idea™. Both Mac OS X web sharing and Django's included http server (which I assume you're using) are intended for testing purposes only, for a number of reasons concerning speed, security et al. which is frankly too long to post here (but I hope that someone will :)
Second, it's already open to the world: anyone can connect to your computer using your IP address instead of the loopback 127.0.0.1 (unless you're NATted). This, again, is quite useful to test it (and have your friends/colleagues/boss) test it temporarily, but again is not fit for production use. Really.
It depends what your real purpose is, what you mean by "available to the world...or something". If you do want it to be permanently accessible from the web, you need to host it on a server (be it shared or dedicated), you won't keep your Mac turned on forever, will you? :)
For hosting Django on shared hosting - I'd recommend webfaction, step-by-step tutorials on setting up Django project can be found in their screencasts and forums (9.50$ per month for basic plan, with two months money-back guarantee, which actually works, tried myself:). More options in Djangofriendly.com
For dedicated server, ask yourself if you favor managing whole server(OS, web server, database server, memcache, firewall, backups...)yourself. If the answer is "yes", check out Linode, Rackspace, or Slicehost or even amazon web services, but bear in mind it's more expensive, it's way more complicated, but that's what gives you the ultimated flexibility. Once you are ready to try - this is one of the best tutorials i've found in net for a given subject.
If all you need is a proof of concept, that "whatever i can access from my web browser, should be accessible from anywhere in the world", ask your ISP if you are given the private IPaddress. If not, hm, better go for options mentioned above :) If you do, then find out what IP it is by visiting whatismyipaddress.com. Then start the web server as Prashanth suggested, and enter the IP address from whatismyip.org in your browser. Get nothing? a)turn off firewall of MacOSx. still nothing? b)connect your Mac directly to ethernet cable your ISP provides, without router in between. Retry entering your ouside IP in the browser. Works? great, go google "Port forwarding ", this will tell you have to configure your router to have the same effect when router is being used. Doesn't? Ask separate question in stackoverflow and provide as much details about what you are doing as you can.
Mac os Web sharing is uselless if the packets aren't routed correctly to reach your computer on a network. I guess all it can do is start apache, and open some ports in a firewall. But if your personal router or ISP wont forward external packets to your computer - you won't get what you want.
Good luck!

Several machines running same software, some won't connect to firebird

I'm pretty perplexed... I've got 5 different test computers, all relatively blank Windows XP machines running similar hardware specs. I run a silent install of the FireBird (Classic) database and my application. Some computers require "localhost:" (or 127.0.0.1) before the database location to make a connection, and some simply don't work at all! This is running the exact same software across the board. Does anybody have any suggestions as to what needs to happen to make the connection string universal, or what I could be doing wrong??
It's firebird version 2.1.1.17910 Classic
By the way, i tried connecting to the same database using FlameRobin (a small db management tool) and it worked just fine on the computers that don't connect.
Any more information necessary just let me know! Thanks a lot in advance
For anybody's future reference, the answer is in the services. Apparently it's not being registered as a service for some reason, and on the working computers, was at some point registered, probably through some sort of far earlier tests of Interbase is my best guess.
C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and opening up the file 'services' and adding the following line allows the server to run properly.
gds_db 3050/tcp
I'm not sure whether you are aware of that, but a connection string without "localhost:" or "127.0.0.1:" in front of the database name or alias will use the local protocol, which can't be used when connecting to Firebird Classic Server (see this link for more information). If a host name or IP address is given, then TCP port 3050 will be used for the connection.
If you have registered a server in FlameRobin, and did not leave the hostname field in the registration dialog blank, then the host name will be part of the connection string. That would explain why you can connect using FlameRobin.
As for the differences between the machines: You should first go to the Firebird Server Manager applet and make sure that the server is indeed running on all machines, and that the version is the same.
Does it have something to do with the hosts file on some of the computers? Or is that what you're referring to with your
Some computers require "localhost:" (or 127.0.0.1) before the database location...
comment?