How can I test in IE while developing under Mac OS X?

Question

I\'ve got my web application on Mac OS X and it\'s ready for IE compatibility testing. I\'ve tried running the server, booting up VMware and pulling up localhost:3000

Answer 1

I don't know if this will work for all the networking modes but I did this and it worked first time for me on default vmware installation.

• Open a command prompt window
• run > ipconfig
• read the Default Gateway IP Address = w.x.y.z
• Open IE
• enter http:://w.x.y.z:3000 as the URL

This worked but then I used the technique mentioned by tadman's answer to add the IP address to the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts...

w.x.y.z maclocal

naming my host "maclocal"....I picked this name at random.

Then accessed the server using

http://maclocal:3000