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Reputation: 31

How to access virtual hosts on Mac with tethered iPhone

I have several of my development web sites on my Mac, each set up as virtual hosts in Apache. For example: example.dev, example2.dev, example3.dev. (I know we're not supposed to use .dev anymore, but I'll do that for my next project.)

I have an iPhone tethered via USB and would like to access the *.dev sites via Safari for testing.

I can access Apache's main directory via the Mac's IP address or .local, but I can't figure out hot to get to the virtual hosts; it throws a 404. Is there a way to get the iPhone to use the same DNS settings as the Mac?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 645

Answers (1)

Fan Jin
Fan Jin

Reputation: 2460

One thing you can do is to install dnsmasq on your mac. First install dnsmasq:

brew install dnsmasq

Run the configuration command it asks you to, which may look similar to this:

cp /usr/local/opt/dnsmasq/dnsmasq.conf.example /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf

Now you can edit the configuration at /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf. Add the following line: (I put mine right below the line that says "#address=/double-click.net/127.0.0.1")

address=/*.dev/192.168.1.10

192.168.1.10 is your private ip address

Now restart the dnsmasq service

sudo brew services restart dnsmasq

Hope this works for you.

Upvotes: 0

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