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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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Running localhostNavigate to http://yourname.local:8000 on your phone and you're all set!
Usually, you can access the localhost of any computer through the loopback address 127.0. 0.1. By default, this IP address references a server running on the current device. In other words, when your computer requests the IP address 127.0.
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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