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Access local DW site through IP address

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Rune Skovbo
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Posted on 22/02/2017 10:30:19

An Umbraco site can have a setup where you can see the site in the browser by typing the developers local IP address followed by a port number. This means that you can test your local site on other devices without having to deploy every little change you make.

It would be really nice to be able to do this on DynamicWeb sites as well!

(Case: 0029073 for reference)


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Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 22/02/2017 10:46:28
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Hi Rune

You should be able to do that in DW also. Just make sure you have the right binding in IIS and assign the IP as a hostname to the website you want it to hit.

See my dumps.

BR Nicolai

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Rune Skovbo
Posted on 22/02/2017 10:52:57
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Hi Nicolai

Thanks for the quick reply!

Hmm, we tried that (see case for details), but with no luck. does this have anything to do with DW8 vs. DW9? (We tried in DW8).

If not then we must have missed something or have some internal limitations.

/Rune

 
Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 22/02/2017 10:55:14
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Hi Rune,

You can do that with Dynamicweb as well. Install your site in IIS on the development machine. If you install it as the default web site and open up the firewall, you should be able to browse to it by IP address. Otherwise, you'll have to give it a (fake) domain name so you can differentiate between the sites on your machine.

Hope this helps,

Imar

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Rune Skovbo
Posted on 22/02/2017 10:58:15
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Thanks both - we will give it another go :-)

/Rune

 
Rune Skovbo
Posted on 28/02/2017 12:15:53
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Hi again, so yes - the above solution works - Thanks!

We would, however, very much like the option to also setup another port than 80, so that we can access multiple sites - each on different port numbers.

makes sense?

/Rune

 
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 28/02/2017 13:35:01
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Hi Rune

You could use a thing like localtest.me (website) instead. We use hosts file internally.

BR Nicolai

 
Imar Spaanjaars Dynamicweb Employee
Imar Spaanjaars
Posted on 28/02/2017 13:51:15
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localtest.me (http://readme.localtest.me/) wouldn't work as it points to the local machine always which means if you try it from a device (as per the original post) it won't go to the web server but to the device.

But port numbers should work, shouldn't they?

 
Nicolai Pedersen
Posted on 28/02/2017 15:14:52
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Yes, you are right. did not see the other machine part. But yes, portnumber should work...

 
Rune Skovbo
Posted on 03/03/2017 08:15:04
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But we tried that without luck. We wrote it like: 10.0.10.100:80 but it was not working.

Could you try it locally?

 
Rune Skovbo
Posted on 30/03/2017 09:04:53
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Any luck getting the above to work?