Comments on: Mac OS X Snow Leopard: Install Local WordPress using MAMP

By: Online Stock Trading

Online Stock Trading — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 19:32:02 +0000

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By: Savannah

Savannah — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:11:48 +0000

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By: Frank Scurley

Frank Scurley — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 19:42:49 +0000

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mesothelioma research — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 07:06:15 +0000

I read it, but think that doesn’t work that way…

By: Colonel Martin

Colonel Martin — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:20:12 +0000

There sure is a way to let the local nodes (computers) on your local network to see your websites. With MAMP the root of your website will be on port 8888. What this means is that you are already broadcasting you webpages to anyone that looks for your IP address with :8888 on the end.

So if you open a Terminal by going to your Applications then your Utilities folder. Then double-clicking on the Terminal.app you can then type in:

ifconfig -a

This will list something like this:

lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0×1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
gif0: flags=8010 mtu 1280
stf0: flags=0 mtu 1280
en0: flags=8863 mtu 1500
ether 00:1e:c2:01:21:fa
media: autoselect status: inactive
supported media: autoselect 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX 100baseTX 100baseTX 100baseTX 1000baseT 1000baseT 1000baseT none
fw0: flags=8822 mtu 4078
lladdr 00:1e:52:ff:fe:5a:1b:98
media: autoselect status: inactive
supported media: autoselect
en1: flags=8863 mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::21e:52ff:fe71:c77c%en1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0×6
inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 00:1e:52:71:c7:7c
media: autoselect status: active
supported media: autoselect
en2: flags=8923 mtu 1500
ether 00:1c:42:00:00:08
media: autoselect status: inactive
supported media: autoselect
en3: flags=8923 mtu 1500
ether 00:1c:42:00:00:09
media: autoselect status: inactive
supported media: autoselect

End of Terminal output!!!!!

So now work up from the bottom looking for inet and you will see an IP address which contains 4 sets of numbers. For my Mac it is displayed on this line:

inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
So the inet number is my IP address. Which is 192.168.0.20
For people to see my websites they need to put in their browser:
http://192.168.0.20:8888/
So even if you did not know it, your websites were already visible to the world, even if that world was only your local network.
We hope this helps and best of luck with all your developments.

By: logfarm

logfarm — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:51:12 +0000

excellent tutorial. got it up and running in 5 minutes.

question : is there a way for other people in my office to see my site or is it just for me? i know localhost is my computer but is there a way for people on my local intranet to see it? i thought by computer name, but that doesn’t work.

thanks again!