Question

I created a website based on wordpress with a custom theme setup. The live website renders fine on every computer, smartphone and tablet i’ve tried, except for my Mac, which I use as my local development machine. I have tried various browsers on my mac. The off-line development version renders fine.

When I visit the website http://www.redroselimos.com/ I get the following error:

Not Found

The requested URL / was not found on this server.

I suspect it is a DNS issue or perhaps a Mac configuration issue?

Mac OSX 10.7.4
Chrome 22.0.1229.79
MAMP PRO 2.0.5
DNS: 208.67.222.222/208.67.220.220 (openDNS)

Answer 1

If it shows up fine on every other machine then the site is validly there and it can only be a networking issue for your Mac. Most likely as it is your dev setup you have other settings in place. The 404 error means you are at least reaching a webserver, so you are getting out to the internet. There are a few things you can do:

1. You could check your /etc/hosts file to see if you send that domain to another IP – which would be my first suspicion.
2. Also check the httpd.conf on the server to see if you handle your dev machine’s IP differently, or if it’s rerouted in .htaccess.
3. You can also try tail -f /var/log/httpd/access_log or whatever your log file is and then try hitting it again from your Mac and see what comes through.
4. Try going through a proxy from your Mac to your site. proxify.com and hidemyass.com both work for this, that way you’ll see if it’s strictly an IP issue.

This should point out exactly what the error is.