If you have access to a DNS server-perhaps there’s one in your router-then great, all devices can use that instead of a local hosts entry. What if you want to use a local hostname on all devices? Depending on your situation, this may not be ideal-and besides, it doesn’t look great. In that case, you’d need to configure the site to use that IP address on all devices, even the computer. However some web sites don’t like being accessed with a mixture of different IP addresses and hostnames on different devices-perhaps because they use absolute links or some kind of host header validation.
The quickest way to view a locally-hosted site on a mobile device is to simply use the local IP address of your computer in the “host” portion of the URL, for example. How can you test the site using the same URL on a mobile device (that is, a real mobile device, not an emulator)-without jailbreaking the device, using a DNS server, or paying for additional software? In this post I’ll describe a way to do exactly that. Let’s say the local site is hosted on Mac OS X, and you access it with a URL containing a hostname defined locally in the Mac’s “hosts” file, such as.
If you have a locally-hosted version of a web site for testing or development, you’ll almost certainly want to test it on a mobile device.
#MAMP PRO 3.0.5 MAC OS X#
Testing a Mac OS X web site using a local hostname on a mobile device
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