[FIXED] Cant access MAMP server from other computers on my network

Issue

I have setup MAMP as a web testing environment on my MacBook Air on my network (its local ip address is 10.0.0.10). It operates fine on that on the MacBook Air, i.e. localhost:8888 takes me to the Apache root directory.

Now I want to do some testing from a Windows machine I have on the same network. From the windows machine I typed in the following 10.0.0.10:8888 into Firefox. It says it is connecting for ages, then sometimes after a while some content shows, but it still says it is loading.

I can't work out what is going on. I have no firewall on the MacBook Air. The https.conf file is set to listen to port 8888.

Is there anything special that I need to do with a MAMP server to be able to access it on other machines?

Solution

Worked it out. While the machine serving MAMP didn't have a firewall, the Windows machine did and obviously the port 8888 was not getting through :P.

On a side note I am working with Wordpress and needed to update the wp-config.php file and the database. localhost needed to be updated to reflect my IP address.

Answered By - McShaman