How do you access a website running on localhost from iPhone browser

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I am working on a mobile website and would like to test it using my iPhone browser  My Windows 7 machine and iPhone are on the same wireless network  How do I access localhost from the iPhone  Right now I get a 404 error

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Another quick and dirty way to do this on a mac is to open up xcode  if you have it installed  and run safari on your simulator  Typing localhost here will work as well

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If you re on a mac make sure to edit your  etc hosts file   Find the IP address per instructions above and add the following line to that file   172 x xx x x outer   After that  the steps above worked  navigate to the right page in my iphone browser  visit http   172 x xx x x port http   www imore com how-edit-your-macs-hosts-file-and-why-you-would-want

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You can use ip of computer instead http   localhost   But it may be not accessible  You must edit the httpd conf  or equivalent configuration file  of your server software  I do not have php installed right now but you can search with keyword   Allow from or  Directory   Note  IP of the PC where XAMPP is running should be a static IP not assigned by DHCP   otherwise you have to check it manually every time you restart the PC

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If you re using a Mac -  Connect your iPhone to your Mac via USB   Go to Network Utility  cmd space and type  quot network utility quot    Go to the  quot Info quot  tab  Click on the drop down menu that says  quot Wi-Fi quot  and select  quot iPhone USB quot  as shown in the photo      You ll find an IP address like  quot xxx xxx xx xx quot  or similar  Open Safari browser on your iPhone and enter IP address port number Example  169 254 72 86 3000    NOTE  If the IP address field is blank  make sure your iPhone is connected via USB  quit Network Utility  open it again and check for the IP address

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Find your system s IP address and on what port you are running the website    Say your IP address is 121 300 00 250 and your port is 8080     Port number  see your web browser while running the page eg  localhost 8080      then the port number is 8080    Now in your mobile go to 121 300 00 250 8080    and you ll find your website    IMPORTANT  You have to make sure that your server  e g Apache Tomcat  is in started condition

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Local server machine  Linux Accessing machine  iPad 13 5 1 I learned that the local server s host IP needs to be set to 0 0 0 0 for other machines to access it  To check  run sudo netstat -anp and look for your local server port  I found that it was running on 127 0 0 1 or localhost so other machines weren t able to access it  I changed my app configurations to run on host IP 0 0 0 0  I then used the  lt internetIP gt   lt port gt  to access the local server  and it worked

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If you are using mac  OSX      On you mac     Open Terminal  run  ifconfig  Find the line with the ip adress  192 xx x x     If you are testing your website with the address    localhost 8888 mywebsite   it depends on your MAMP configurations    On your phone      Open your browser  e g Safari   Enter the URL 192 xxx x x 8888 mywebsite    Note   you have to be connected on the same network  wifi

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WebpackDevServer localhost from iphone If you are using an app which is running on node  you can use webpack as a build tool and use their built in devserver You can use webpackdevserver to start your application from a localhost server and then pass in your localhost address and port of your choice  webpack-dev-server --host 192 168 0 89 --port 3000  then from your iPhone you can access it using http   192 168 2 89 3000  Note    Your laptop and iPhone should be on the same network  and you should use your localhost ip address  For Mac how to find ip address you can refer Get local IP address in node js

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There is a very simple way to achieve this    Connect your phone and computer into the same LAN  Window   R  then type ipconfig  then you get your current ip of ur pc  it looks like this   192 168 XX XX Type this ip with your app port in your phone web browser like this  http   192 168 XX XX 8080  it works   Note     If that did not work  Turn off anti-virus software in your PC  if still not work  try turning off windows firewall  cuz the issue is related to PC firewall

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Steps   I assume you have started the web server  apache tomcat on default port 8080    On windows 10    Open your antivirus  go to the firewall section  and locate port section and add a Local TCP IP Port   8080 to allow access get the machine ip address from command prompt   IPv4 Address  Launch chrome from iPhone and goto ip address 8080 address    Hope this helps

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If You d Rather Type A Hostname Instead of IP Address  First Option  Quick Way    You should be able to navigate to http   my-macbook-pro local mywebsite on your iPhone  See https   stackoverflow com a 9304094 470749  This approach tends to work because the   local  domain is a special reserved word   Second Option   See http   xip io   which is a free service and is super convenient  No config necessary   Then when you browse to http   mysite app 192 168 1 130 xip io  using a browser on your server or on any device on your LAN   it will show the page hosted at 192 168 1 130    And if you re running Homestead on the machine that exists at that IP  browsing to http   mysite app 192 168 1 130 xip io 44300  with the port in the URL  somehow shows the page hosted on the Homestead Vagrant virtual machine at 192 168 10 10  Pretty amazing   Third Option  which doesn t depend on a service and is flexible but more complicated and only works if you have a router with DD-WRT on it    If you have one local server hosting multiple different sites that you d like to access via different hostnames  via iPhone   you can do this    In your OS  change the name of your computer to something short  meaningful  and easy to remember  such as  RYANDESK   In your DD-WRT router settings    In Services  gt  Services  gt  Static Leases  set the MAC address of your server to point to a specific IP address  such as 192 168 1 108  Set its hostname to be the same as you named your computer earlier   Client Lease Time  can be 1440 minutes  Be sure to press Save and also Apply Settings with every change    Save  doesn t seem to automatically apply the settings   If you get an error  it s probably because the GUI design of DD-WRT is misleading  and you unnecessarily pressed  Add  for Static Leases  In DHCP Server  gt  User Domain  choose  LAN  amp  WAN   For  LAN Domain   set it to some short string  such as your initials without any punctuation  e g   xyz    Probably avoid using the word  local  since there might be conflicts  Don t use real-world domains such as  com    org    net   etc   In Services  gt  Services  gt  DNSMasq  enable DNSMasq and  Local DNS  and configure  Additional DNSMasq Options  to be something like  address  project1 xyz project2 xyz 192 168 1 108  where xyz is whatever you chose in the earlier step  the IP points to the specific machine  and project1 and project2 are whatever hostname you want to point to each of those projects  such as different Nginx configs   Ensure that your HOSTS file doesn t have any entries conflicting with what we ve done  If you don t know what a HOSTS file is  you re probably fine  Flush your DNS cache and release and renew your local IP  Switch into and out of Airplane Mode on iPhone to flush DNS cache there too  Now you can browse to http   ryandesk xyz in your iPhone  or in your desktop browser   and it will resolve to your local server  So hopefully you ve set up your Nginx or Apache or whatever to be listening for that hostname   https   wiseindy com it how-to-access-your-pcs-using-dns-names-with-dd-wrt  http   www howtogeek com 69696 how-to-access-your-machines-using-dns-names-with-dd-wrt

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In my case  first i connected my pc and mobile on the same network  you can ping your mobile from pc to test the connection   I running my project with GGTS Groovy Grails Tool Suite  locally then accessing website from mobile using PC IP address and it s work very well   PS  running from local it would give url like  http   localhost 8080 projectname  you should replace localhost with PC IP address if you are trying to access your local website from mobile

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If you are working on a php project you can change the base href    lt base href   lt  php echo str replace  localhost   192 x x x  HTTPS SERVER    gt   gt    localhost or 127 0 0 1  depending on your settings 192 x x x   your local ip address HTTPS SERVER  the previous base href   Doing that is essential to load images  css and js files on your phone

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From my iphone I wanted to browse a website hosted on IIS server on my Windows 8 laptop  After some reading around  I opened Windows Firewall  selected  Allow an app or feature through Windows firewall   Then scrolled down and checked  World Wide Web Services  HTTP   from the list  That s all  it worked  Hope it helps someone else too

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Try this    Press Windows   R Open cmd Run ipconfig  Old  ifconfig  New  Check your wireless network card IP Go to iPhone and navigate to  http   xxx xxx xxx xxx   through your browser   xxx xxx xxx xxx is your IP    Note  you must set permission on your firewall settings  if any

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For Mac users  open up the Network Utility  You can find this by typing cmd   space which will open spotlight and then in spotlight start typing Network Utility   Select Network Utility  when it s open  your IP address will be found next to the label IP Address  So basically with the IP  you can get into any open ports on your local mac e g  if your website is running locally on localhost 3000 and your ip address is 154 31 92 0 then from your phone you can get the website simply by typing 154 31 92 0 3000 into a browser   PS- This only works if both phone and computer are on the same network

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If you go the route of going into your Network Settings and getting Wi-Fi IP address such as xxx xxx x xxx 9000   9000 or whichever port is open   make sure your mobile device is also on that same Wi-Fi signal IP address  I spent a day trying to get this to work and it didn t work until i switched my phone off the cellular network to the same Wi-Fi connection IP address  Opened right up once I made this update

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WIth WAMP   1  you should click on WAMP icon Put Online  wait till re-started    2  Then  if you are WiFi on Iphone on same network   open your IP in iPhone browser   i e  http   192 168 1 22 OR http   164 92 124 42   To find your local IP s  a  click Start Run cmd and type ipconfig  then you will see there  OR   b  click the blue arrow and  lease new ip    p s  That s all  now you can access  open  localhost from Android or iPhone

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If you are using Mac  go to System Preferences   Network and use your IP address instead of localhost  You can also use port number  In my case  I have a server running on port 1448 and I can preview 192 168 1 241 1448 using iPhone

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If you are not on the same network you could use this third party tool called localtunnel  http   localtunnel me   It basically routes your content through another server and you access that

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Accessing localhost from the iPhone will simply do a loopback   try to connect to itself  If it supports that     What you need to do is find the IP of your desktop machine  e g  If Windows  go to the Command Prompt and type ipconfig or go to Network and Sharing Centre and look up connection status   Once you have your ip  simply visit that from your browser e g  http   192 168 0 102   You may need to open up port 80  or whatever port your website is running on  in the inbound security of your firewall if you are running one      Note  don t forget the app s port if what you want is to debug the app in   your iPhone s browser like  http   192 168 0 102 3000  In this example 3000 is the default port used by ReactJS

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For those of you that are using the correct IP address and you STILL aren t able to connect to the local server  one other thing to check is that you or your coworker didn t configure the device to use a proxy server   I had one device that wouldn t connect  and it turned out that the device was configured to use Charles Proxy  which of course wasn t running

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Firstly  your have to confirm that you also access server api via your mac ip on mac browser  If not  make sure your server allow do that instead of just localhost  127 0 0 1  by runing your server on 0 0 0 0 Go to safari on iphone and make a get request by api your server serve  ex http   0 0 0 0 st  Safari auto redirect to server your mac runing  at your mac ip  If you want to make request on your iphone app  It shoud be repalce requet 0 0 0 0 by  your mac server ip

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you can try ngrok io  Works on same principle as localtunnel   Download the application for your os  and try to run like   for linux     ngrok http 8000   8000 is port number your application is running on   for windows    ngrok exe http 8000

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I wanted to accomplish the same thing as the original request  and looked for an answer here  and turned off every firewall and virusprotection to no avail    Then  I found the following statment regarding IIS express in the microsoft documentation    IIS express does not serve requests to a browser on another computer  making its approval easier in corporate environments     Bottom line - you will have to install IIS  not the delivered IIS express  to get your project to be seen outside your computer    Source   http   msdn microsoft com en-us library 58wxa9w5 aspx   Hope this is helpfull to other people that are going nuts turning off every security feature on their computer

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Have a look at this answer  it discusses internally routing HTTP through direct Objective-C calls to an HTTP-capable layer embedded web server  let s assume that the HTTP server code is within the same application that wishes to display the HTML within a web widget    This has the advantage of being slightly more secure  and possibly faster  as no port s  should be exposed

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If you re using MAMP  key in your IP address  let s say 192 0 0 63  in your iPhone Safari browser  followed by the port number 8888  e g  192 0 0 63 8888  and you will be able to see your local site in your iPhone   And if you re using a WAMP server  again in your iPhone safari browser just key in the IP address  let s say 192 0 0 63  and that s it  But don t forget to remove the deny from all from the httpd conf file for your WAMP server  If you look for the line allow from 127 0 0 1  above it or below of it you will see deny from all  just delete this line and restart your WAMP server and that should to the job

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