Question

I have a Project that runs on Windows Azure Development instance on a local development machine.

I have a Web Project that runs on : http://127.0.0.1:8080
and a Services Project that runs on http://127.0.0.1:81

I want to make both of these project available locally on my LAN for development.

I’ve switched of the firewall and unblocked the ports 8080 and 81 from my firewall settings. but this still doesn’t work.

Can you please help me out with this?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Like Brent explains the best solution would be to test this in the cloud (in a staging environment for example). There are plenty of examples that can help you integrate this in your build process. On the other hand, you’ll be paying for this test environment, and this might not always be an option.

Allowing external access to your emulator is pretty easy, simply use netsh (which is included in Windows):

netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=10081 connectport=81 connectaddress=127.0.0.1
netsh interface portproxy add v4tov4 listenport=18080 connectport=8080 connectaddress=127.0.0.1

Executing these commands will make your web project available on http://10.1.1.x:18080 and your services project on http://10.1.1.x:10081 (replace 10.1.1.x with your actual ip). Note that you might need to open the firewall on your machine to allow external connection to these ports.