Thanks a lot, I'll add a link from the documentation page :-)

crucialclick, thanks for the tutorial. Anyone know of a way for the virtual environment to access the 'localhost' apache web server on the non-virtual OS? Development work is done on the real OS, but I need to access the web server from the virtual environment through the home network?

By the way, I don't necessary need to use 'localhost' if that's unavailable. Something such as local.home routed through the windows HOSTS file would be sufficient.

Anyway this is possible?

I figured it out:

For those that need to test out their localhost web server from the virtual environment where IETester is ran, do the following:

On your real, non virtual environment machine, click start, run, and execute ipconfig

Write down your IP Address. It may show as IPv4 Address. This value is located directly beneath the Connection-specific DNS Suffix. The format of the number will be something like 192.168.1.###

Edit your apache configuration file (ie, httpd.conf) and go down to the Listen line. You'll likely have a value already set, such as

Listen 80

or

Listen 127.0.0.1:80

Add your IP address beneath that

Listen 192.168.1.101:80

Yes, you can have multiple Listen lines. Now, restart your apache server.

Now, do the following on your virtual environment machine:

Open your HOSTS file in Notepad. It's located at C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\HOSTS

Add your IP address

192.168.1.101 local.home

You don't have to use local.home. You can use anything, as long as it is NOT localhost. If anyone can get localhost to work, then please specify.

Now you can open the virtual environment's Internet Explorer or IETester to the address

http://local.home

...and everything pulls up as it should.

A few problems:

1) HTTPS addresses don't work. If anyone can figure this one out, please share.
2) As crucialclick previously mentioned, you have to open an IE7 tab before any other or else IETester crashes/freezes. Aftewards, the IE6-8 tabs work great.

One final thing to keep in mind. If anything suddenly stops working, then it's possible your IP address has changed. This may happen if your router loses power. If that's the case, you'll have to run IPCONFIG again, get your new address, update your apache config file and HOSTS file.

Thanks to crucialclick for the tutorial and thanks to fabrice for IETester.

Last edited by bingo (2009-05-09 01:54:54)

Russell,

Are you running Windows 7?

Did you follow my tutorial?  And there is really nothing confusing, use the links I provided and install virtual pc, then install the virtual xp... that's it.  And the installations for both are no different than installing any regular program on your system.

Has there been an update for the win7 bugs yet? I tried from a clean slate to use this again, with no luck.

Not really sure what to say, other than your computer may not be compatible with Virtual Windows XP.  I can't really troubleshoot your windows issues- try googling the issue with the install and see if others are experiencing the same issue and have fixes to offer.

Sorted: KasperSky was messing with the installation. Using AVG instead.

matt1146 wrote:

While I was trying to install it according to your instructions (I have Windows 7 and can do the XP virtual mode), I decided to try to install the program [IETester] right in Windows 7. It didn't work at first. However, when I right click the program link and go to the capability tab and set it to Vista Service Pack 1 as well as checking the box "always run this as administrator." It seems to be opening just fine. Sorry if someone has found this out already, I read through this post and didn't see anyone, but I am new to forums. Thanks.

Thanks again and have a good day,
Matt

ps. I'm running the 64-bit of Windows 7 RC1.

I can confirm that IETester is still NOT functioning in Windows 7 RC1.   I'm running Windows 7 RC 64-bit as well.

Matt, please try testing a website under the IE6 tab within IETester.

Hi,

IETester v 0.3.5 is now working under Windows 7 : Note that it is still unstable and trying to open all version at the same time can crash the application.