Remotely viewing web pages served by pow.cx

Question

Using WEBrick you could navigate to an app you were serving from another device/virtual machine by navigating to your.ip.address.here:port

Is it possible to do somet

Answer 1

There are basically two options:

• Don't use pow: run your applications on localhost as usual and access them as usual
• Edit the hosts file (or local DNS) to point your server machine ip

Example accessing from a virtual windows machine: Suppose you are running two rails applications in pow: store.dev and auth.dev, and you want to access them from a windows xp virtual machine to test them with IE, you only need to edit your hosts file to add the lines:

C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

# Allow to access applications in pow. 
# The ip address points to the host machine localhost, that usually is the default gateway
10.0.2.2      store.dev
10.0.2.2      auth.dev

And then open the IE browser to access your applications in http://store.dev and http://auth.dev respectivelly.