serving apache on a local (not 127.0.0.1 address).

Apache Hints HOWTOs UNIX Web Development

Jennifer Zelazny July 8, 2004
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If you ever need to serve a web site for, let’s say a presentation, on a local address and need to connect to another computer…perhaps your database/ Web Objects server locally as well, and you are running Mac OS X…then I have some information for you.

  1. If you want to serve the web site on 10.0.0.2 and have your other server on 10.0.0.3, open the terminal and type in: sudo ifconfig en0 10.0.0.2. This will change the IP address. (changing the IP address in the network control panel was not enough)
  2. Next, edit the apache conf file: sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf and add Listen 10.0.0.2:80 and then restart apache

Now you can serve 10.0.0.2 on your local machine and connect to a computer on your local network. (connected by an ethernet cable)

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