I can't access my install on my local network

Hi,
I just installed drupal and wordpress on my localhost using bitnami (duh) and at first everything seemed great but now for some reason I can’t call the installs up in my browser. I have the folders just hanging around in my applications folder. should I move them? I even had the installs bookmarked in my browser but they just won’t show up now. so for my drupal install the url was http://anime.local:9090/drupal/. The wordpress install is similar.

I’m not very experienced with stuff like this. I’m pretty new to it. Please help!

raspberryheaven

Hi,

What error are you exactly getting? Can you check if the servers are running?

Cheers

I’m just getting the basic can’t connect to server error in safari. I’m running this on my localhost so I’m not really sure why it wouldn’t connect to it. Do i need to put these installations in my sites folder or enable sharing or what? I’m new to all of this localhost type stuff so I don’t really know what I’m doing 100%.

raspberryheaven

And what about the servers? You can check their status by typing

./ctlscript.sh status

in the Terminal, at the installation directory

Cheers

Sorry, I don’t really understand what you mean by servers. I didn’t think I needed to worry about anything like that when running something on local host. I”ll try it out though. How do I get to the installation directory in my terminal?

raspberryheaven

Hi,

A quick definition, not 100% accurate: servers are applications that listen to other applications (named clients) petitions and answer them accordingly. For example, your web browser asks a web server for pages.

After rebooting your system, you have to start the servers. Type in the Terminal

cd /Applications/drupal-*

“cd” is the command to change directory, and the parameter passed is the location of the folder (change the asterisk for the exact version of the drupal stack). Now, to start the servers type

./ctlscript.sh start

And you’re done.

Cheers