Thread:Project:Support desk/Accessing MediaWiki on a Home Network under OSX/reply

This is not related to MediaWiki specifically but I'm on OSX too, so here's how I did it.

Assuming you have a web server running (either the default Apache that comes with OSX or something like MAMP), you can access this via http://localhost. On other machines this doesn't work since localhost is a magic pointer to the 'local' (current) machine, which, on the other computer, is not yours but the other.

Go to System Preferences > Network. Then click on your protocol in the list on the left (Ethernet cable, AirPort wireless, etc. whatever the method is you are connected to your network). Then under "Status" you see an IP-adress that looks like "192.168.xx.xx".

That's the address other machines in your network should use to access your 'localhost'. You can also use this IP-adres when on your own machine.