Comments on: Pointing to MAMP from Virtual Windows

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By: Steve Stedman

Steve Stedman — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:28:13 +0000

@Rick, check to see where your stylesheet links are pointing to. Might they be pointing to file:/// or localhost?

By: Rick Pickett

Rick Pickett — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 23:05:40 +0000

Great post. Very straight forward and easy. Got up and running in 5 minutes.

Only issue, I’m using Magento and I’m getting the HTML markup to show, but no styles are showing up. Any thoughts? The css, etc. all live in the same repo directory.

Thanks for any help or pointers.

Rick

By: Aitkins

Aitkins — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 14:21:53 +0000

Steve,

Thanks fot the write up! Do you know if this method officially works with gmWare usions for Mac!?;

By: Steve Stedman

Steve Stedman — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:28:07 +0000

Sahus, yes (depending on what you mean by officially). I successfully tested this process with VMWare Fusion and later with VirtualBox. I suspect the same methods would work with Parallels as well.

By: Sahus Pilwal

Sahus Pilwal — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:45:49 +0000

Steve,

Thanks for the write up! Do you know if this method officially works with vmWare Fusions for Mac!?

By: Steve Stedman

Steve Stedman — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 13:06:30 +0000

Mathias, perhaps I glossed over that part a bit too quickly. Actually changing the port numbers is pretty easy. However, there are two gotchas to keep in mind: 1) you can't run the Mac Web Sharing server at the same time (since it runs on port 80); and 2) you need to enter your system password every time you start MAMP. While the password security thing can get annoying, it is there to protect your computer from rogue applications trying to use port numbers smaller than 1024. Fortunately, there are ways to get around this.

By: Mathias

Mathias — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:30:31 +0000

I don’t understand how you managed to remove the port number from the localhost URL… According to this thread on the MAMP forum, changing the default server port to 80 is way more complicated than what you described. Please elaborate :)

By: Steve Stedman

Steve Stedman — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:03:04 +0000

Brady, thanks for stopping by. Sorry to hear the setup didn’t work right out of the box.

Did you try using your full Mac IPv4 address and port number (e.g., http://192.168.2.1:8888) before diving into the hosts file? If you’re running AirPort while your ethernet is plugged in, you may have to turn one off. Once I got this piece to work, the rest was gravy.

Also, make sure you include the http:// protocol part for IE6. I wasted many hours trying to get just 192.168.2.1:8888 to do something in the location bar.

By: Brady

Brady — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:57:08 +0000

Thank you for the writeup!

I can’t seem to get the MAMP to connect to Windows. I’m running Windows Vista through VirtualBox 3b, using a Bridged network adapter.

I have modified the hosts file in Windows. However, I don’t see how it will see my Mac’s IP address unless I turn on Web Sharing on the Mac, which will not allow MAMP to run on the “default” ports.

Any ideas? Thank you!