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Ilyas Patel
Ilyas Patel

Reputation: 450

Can't connect android emulator to look at local sites and services

I'm trying to use an Android emulator to use services running on my local machine. I have a site running under IIS which in my host file looks like this:

127.0.0.1       www.local.company.co.uk

I have several sites running under Apache Tomcat. My host file for Tomcat related sites:

127.0.0.1       internal.localhost.company.com  # port:8090
127.0.0.2       external.localhost.company.com  # port:8081
127.0.0.3       auth.ws.localhost.company.com  # port:8082
127.0.0.8       mysite.localhost.company.com  # port:8086

What I have tried so far (in the following steps):

adb pull /etc/hosts

Edit Android host file:

127.0.0.1        localhost
10.0.2.2         myefc.localhost.efinancialcareers.com

adb remount adb push hosts /etc/hosts Then I try to visit myefc.localhost.efinancialcareers.com in the browser and am told webpage not found. I’d at least expect it to go to www.local.company.co.uk.

What I would ideally like is to be able to go to any site on my local machine which are specified in the above host file examples.

I am on Windows 7 and using Tomcat 6. The emulator I am using is nexus one.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 513

Answers (1)

Simon MacDonald
Simon MacDonald

Reputation: 23273

You need to use the IP address of your server. If you reference localhost from the device it will try to make a connection to itself through the loopback IP address 127.0.0.1.

Upvotes: 1

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