Comments on: Accessing Mac virtual hosts from a Parallels VM

By: Mamp and Parallels 5: How to setup a windows & mac virtual host — Ice To The Brim

Sat, 10 Dec 2011 18:47:57 +0000

[...] just might work. This is what’s working for me. So, there’s that.For Further Reading: http://terminalapp.net/accessing-mac-virtual-hosts-from-a-parallels-vm/ http://echomythoughts.blogspot.com/2010/02/mamp-virtual-hosts-and-parallels.html [...]

By: Mamp and Parallels 5: How to setup a windows & mac virtual host

Mamp and Parallels 5: How to setup a windows & mac virtual host — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:15:04 +0000

By: Aaron Klump

Aaron Klump — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:02:57 +0000

I’ve upgraded to 6.0 and now I’m unable to connect to virtual hosts. The settings have disappeared. Anyone have any ideas/luck with 6.0 and virtual hosts?

- MacBook Pro running Parallels 6.0 virutualizing Windows 7

By: David

David — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:18:36 +0000

Hugely helpful, thanks.

By: cactork

cactork — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:56:15 +0000

Sorry but the post stripped out the tags from the VH, let’s try again..

NameVirtualHost gdp.local:8888

DocumentRoot “/Developer/projects/GDP”
DirectoryIndex index.php

AllowOverride All
Allow from all

By: cactork

cactork — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 19:54:11 +0000

It didn’t work for me, sure I’m doing something wrong.
first of all, bridge between Parallels and mac works great (thank’s for that!) because all the sites under MAMP htdocs (mounted in port 8888) renders ok.

but, accessing to a virtualhost don’t…

My VirtualHost
NameVirtualHost myproject.local:8888

DocumentRoot “/Developer/projects/myproject”
DirectoryIndex index.php

AllowOverride All
Allow from all

And my host in VM Windows:
192.168.0.100 myproject.local

If I enter “http://myproject.local:8888/” takes me to the htdocs from MAMP, not to the VH…
Any ideas?
Thanks!

By: Mamp and Parallels 5: How to setup a windows & mac virtual host « Myblog's Blog

Tue, 18 May 2010 20:02:00 +0000

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By: Aaron Klump

Aaron Klump — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:44:16 +0000

Using parallels 5.0 required an extra step which I found over on this thread… 1. http://forum.parallels.com/showthread.php?t=98075

This worked for me on Snow Leopard, Parallels 5 and Windows 7

By: Mark Fox

Mark Fox — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 05:20:10 +0000

Oh snap! That was easy. Even works with MAMP! Thanks so much.

By: Miguel Arroz

Miguel Arroz — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:20:31 +0000

Sure! Just add an entry for each virtual host, using the same IP in the Windows hosts file.

By: Mark Fox

Mark Fox — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 16:32:28 +0000

Great tutorial, super simple to follow and was able to get working in a jiff.

Additionally, I was wondering if anyone knows how to get this to work with virtual hosts. Bear with me as I try to explain using my half-baked knowledge of Apache/Networking.

The above works fine for anything I might have at “http://localhost/” but I usually have two to three projects hosted on my Mac and I like to use virtual host aliases (?terminology?) that I can access at something like “http://project1/” & “http://project2/” — is there way to access these virutalhosts using this same trick?

By: Miguel Arroz

Miguel Arroz — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:01:54 +0000

I still did not upgrade to Snow Leopard (as I’m waiting for PGP). Anyway, I had experienced issues when installing the OS X upgrades (ie, like from 10.5.6 to 10.5.7) with Parallels 3. The network ports were still there, but they didn’t work at all unless I reinstalled Parallels after the upgrade. I think I don’t have that issue since I upgraded to Parallels 4.0, but it may be something similar to what I’ve experienced. Have you tried to re-install Parallels?

By: Melksedek

Melksedek — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 20:56:02 +0000

Unfortunately, with Parallels 4.0 and Snow Leopard, somehow on shared network my Parallels NAT adapter no longer appears in the System Preferences and despite my sincerest efforts I was unable to do anything. Instead, I used bridging but it is quite nasty because I have to use 2 IP’s from the network instead of passing through the Mac’s IP…any similar issues?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:41:38 +0000

Huh. Interesting. I have a site on my mac in /Library/WebServer/Documents/, and one in /Users/Shared/. The one in /Users/Shared/ is configured with a named Virtual Host in my apache config. On my mac, I type drupaltesting.dev, and it takes me to that site. To reach the one in /Library/WebServer/Documents/, I just hit localhost. When I try your trick, drupaltesting.dev from Parallels resolves to the localhost site, not my drupaltesting.dev site. I’m puzzling over why this is.

By: bob

bob — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:48:06 +0000

Thanks a bunch!

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By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:15:56 +0000

Brilliant – thank you! Worked great, saves me a TON of hassle.

By: Tyson

Tyson — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:37:58 +0000

Thank you for posting this information! I am developing using mac host and vmWare running IEs and this advice is also relevant to me. Also, came here via google!

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:34:06 +0000

Just wanted to thank you for this – googled for this info and came across this page. It’s easy to follow and is well explained, and it worked! So thanks – you saved my ass!