Using MAMP as a webhost

[mr_nabo]

Hi,

Just a quick question as I'm a noob in here and just wanted to check something.

I regularly develop sites on my Mac using MAMP but need to check them on PC for IE compatibility etc. How would I go about giving a PC access via the Internet to my site and is it advisable to do so?

Just wondering if there's an easier way to check sites between two platforms rather than transfer across the site to a XAMP installation, reconfigure the paths in scripts, import MySQL tables etc...

Thanks

[mack]

Do you have a win PC that you could lug into your network? What you can do is surf to the IP address of the host machine and this will allow you to test using windows IE.

If you need to allow access from outside the network you will need to set up port forwarding on your router. Different routers have a different set of procedures to allow this. Basically what you are doing is pointing everything on port 80 that arrives on your WAN address to the specific LAN IP address.

A much simpler way may be to upload the test site to a host and simple ask someone to browse it. This wont test your server config, but will allow a user to access and test the pages. You could password protect the test site to allow access only to authorised users.

Mack.

[edited by: engine at 12:09 pm (utc) on Feb. 5, 2008]
[edit reason] typo [/edit]

[mr_nabo]

Thanks for getting back to me so quickly,

Both of those options sound like good solutions - I think I'll try the LAN connection between Mac and PC first to view the site.

Thanks once again.