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October 12, 2008
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Connect to Developer Edition over LAN?

  • October 12, 2008
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I've been working locally for years... but until now, this never came up.

I use my laptop occasionally for a change of scene, editing files across
my local network that are stored in the webroot on my main desktop pc.
No problems there.. when working remotely I can upload as I go and see
everything just fine.

But now I am wondering, how could I do this if I want to work locally?
Editing files on another pc is no problem, but I can't sort out what the
URL should be (or if it is even possible) to view files on the cf root
of another computer.

i.e. instead of http://localhost:8500/mysite I need
http://IPADDRESS:PORT/mysite
but none of the variations on that remote IP/Port have worked.

( i can't use the localhost on the laptop, since the file actually
exists on the other computer)

I was under the impression the developer edition lets us connect from up
to two IP addresses.
If that applies in my case, what should I be trying for the url ?
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    Inspiring
    October 24, 2008
    got it!
    Turns out I needed to turn off my firewall on the host machine
    (actually created a rule to allow specific ports on my home network only)

    Now I am connecting to CF on the other machine just like it was on this
    one... perfect.

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    Inspiring
    October 12, 2008
    Thanks.
    I should have specified, I am using the built-in JRUN server.
    Maybe this doesn't work the same way?

    I also have xampp (apache) running on the same machine, which works as
    it should at my pc's IP address.
    So if I go to this machine's IP address, http://172.16.17.8 , I see the
    xampp webserver landing page.
    I have tried http://172.16.17.8:8500/ and http://172.16.17.8/mysite/,
    and the browser just loads a blank white page (firefox). IE says
    'website found waiting for response' then loads with a 'cannot find
    page' error.

    I suspect I might need to run CF on IIS to do what I am wanting ...
    thanks for any help



    prasanth25 wrote:
    > Hi,
    > If you are using IIS as the webserver, you may not need to specify the
    > port; the http://localhost/mysite will work and if you are connecting from a
    > different machine, http://<IPaddress>/mysite should work.
    >
    >

    Prasanth_Kumar_S
    Inspiring
    October 12, 2008
    Hi,
    If you are using IIS as the webserver, you may not need to specify the port; the http://localhost/mysite will work and if you are connecting from a different machine, http://<IPaddress>/mysite should work.
    Please specify the exact error that you are receiving.

    -Prasanth
    Prasanth_Kumar_S
    Inspiring
    October 12, 2008
    Hi,
    If you are using IIS as the webserver, you may not need to specify the port; the http://localhost/mysite will work and if you are connecting from a different machine, http://<IPaddress>/mysite should work.