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Micheal
Micheal

Reputation: 2322

testing your rails app in IE8 through virtualbox

I am developing a rails application in my mac and testing at localhost:/3000 I need to test some of the features in IE8. I downloaded virtualbox and set up a VM for it. I had my rails service running in my mac tried the following different ways but didnt work.

http://192.168.1.2:3000

Did ipconfig in windows cmd and found out the IP address was 10.0.2.15.

http://10.0.2.15:3000

Did a host name on my mac and tried the following in my windows:

mac-hostname:3000

But none of the above worked.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 843

Answers (2)

Micheal
Micheal

Reputation: 2322

Here is what I did to solve the issue. I updated the /etc/hosts file I added the IP address and renamed the localhost to something else

10.0.2.2 localtest

And in my broswer I enter:

http://localtest:3000

Upvotes: 1

zetetic
zetetic

Reputation: 47548

I have this working. Check your VM settings. In my case the Network tab has 'Attached to:' set to NAT.

The host address (192.168.1.2) is where you should point your browser. The 10.0.2.15 address belongs to the VM client. You should be able to open a command window in the VM and do tracert 192.168.1.2 and get there in 2 hops.

P.S.: You may also be able to get this working with a bridged adapter. I'm just telling you what works for me.

Upvotes: 0

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