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Passenger and browser testing in virtual machines

If you’re running Passenger in development, here is how to make Windows running in a virtual machine connect to your app in Passenger.

Boot up the VM and open up the Windows command prompt (go to “Start->Run…”, enter “cmd” and press enter)
Type ipconfig to see the network configuration. Take note of the “Default Gateway” address.
Navigate to C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc and edit the hosts file. Add a line with the gateway address pointing to your app’s domain (you can even list multiple on the same line).
```
172.16.248.2    awesomeapp.local otherawesomeapp.local
```
Open up a browser in the VM and type in the address.

Tada! Now you can test out your app in those other browsers.

Code: passenger, rails, vmware, windows Feb 08, 2010 ● updated Feb 08, 2010 ● 0 comments

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