Question

I’ve got a website hosted on my IIS and I would like to access it from other devices connected to same lan. Whilst I can access my local host (default website in IIS) by doing so:

http://10.0.1.6/

where, that’s my internal ip. This always works, even from iPad and iPod.

This has worked fine for all cases until now. Now, I have a website that’s hosted in IIS with a binding, mysite.local – and I have my host file edited so requests to it would go to IIS.

The trouble is I don’t know how to access it on my other devices anymore.

doing http://10.0.1.6/mysite.local gives me an error, understandably.
This website works intimately with subdomains so I will have to access it by something like one.mysite.local or two.mysite.local and so on.

so how do I access this site with other devices? any ideas please?

thanks

I don’t know what else I need to provide to come up with an answer, if you need anything, let me know.

Answer 1

Update the hosts file on clientX to so that “mysite.local” –> 10.0.1.6 – assuming the client you’re testing with is a PC/Mac. If the client is something else – an iPad, etc you would probably need to setup a local DNS server for your network.