subdomain confusion

I assume this has to do with parallels, but really am at a loss.

I have installed XP sp2 and Ubuntu and am trying to access my local (to OS X) web site. I have changed the hosts file in both installs, but all I get when I type in any address located on my OS X is the apache document root.

Until now I have been developing without subdomains and haven't had a problem, but I now need to use subdomains for development and can't test the IEs as they will only show the main document root. Even if I change the document root to one of the sites' main document folders, all my img1.sitename.net etc don't do anything.

When I'm on OS X, I have no problems. All my sites and their subdomains show up perfectly.

Does anybody have any ideas? I've asked at the MAMP site, as I am using MAMP, but they are at a loss.

This problem occurs in both 10.4.11 running Parallels 2.something and 10.5.2 running Parallels 3.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Oh, and if this isn't where this topic is supposed to go, please point me in the right direction.

 

Hello Iamdravenman,

Please try Bridged Ethernet - set it in your VM Configuration Editor.

Best regards,
Xenos

 

bridged...

doesn't work. Nothing does. All i get is document root.

Thanks, though.

Any other ideas?

 

OK, so after a lot of testing different settings out, I finally found the answer. Maybe simple to some, but definitely not to me.

First, I had to change the IP address of all of the virtualhosts that are related subdomains to that of the Parallels Host–Guest network connection in System Prefs. Then I had to edit my hosts files. It worked just fine with Parallels set to Shared networking.

Thanks for your help. It got me thinking a lot. Not that I haven't been thinking about this for the past month or so.