Allow IE running in parallels to access a locally hosted app

Rails
1

Hi,

Is it possible to configure parallels so that I can acccess via IE/Win a
Rails app that his hosted locally on my mac?

Thanks for any hint!
Ingo

2

Thanks, Scott!

Sorry I don’t know a thing about networking…
in 'ifconfig’s output I found a address beginning with ‘127’ which
worked on my mac, but not on Windows. I can connect to the internet in
Windows OK.

Are there any networking settings that I need to tweak in order for this
to work?

Ingo

3

Yes it should work out of the box, because Windows running on
Parallels and your Mac OS X should have two different IP addresses.
Just goto the particular ip address from within IE.

If you need to know your IP address on the Mac side you can run ‘/
sbin/ifconfig’ from a Terminal session. They’re might be an easier
way to figure out the IP address, but this works.

cheers,

scott

4

Great, I got it to work! Now I can test my local Rails apps from
Browsers running in Parallels! Here is what I did to find the IP address
that works from Parallels:

In the ‘Info’ tab of Apple’s ‘Network Utility’ there is a popup listing
different network interfaces. I just tried the IP address of each of
those until one or them worked (Network Interface en1)

Ingo