connect localhost from another machine

Question

Is there anyway i can navigate to a website i develop on my computer from a smartphone connected to the same network? the site is running on localhost, can I make a bridge or something like that?

thanks.

Answer 1

I think you can if you use you're IP directly as the website's name.For example in TOMCAT all the sites are localhost:port/Project_name/filename.html

So if you would use "http://your_ip:port/Project_name/filename.html" , it should work.

As a note, the firewall may stop this from working.

Answer 2

As long as your site is available to the network, just use the name of your PC.

So if you were developing on http://localhost:12345 connect using http://muzE-PC:12345 (assuming muzE-PC was the name of your computer)

Answer 3

instead of localhost use, ip address.

Make sure that website is not blocked by windows firewall .

ipconfig can be used to determine ip address.

On remote system, localhost will refer to that remote system (not the system on which web site is running).