Hi, I am brand new to Umbraco and apologize for the lack of knowledge here. My company asked me to deploy Umbraco on a virtual machine. I set up the VM with Windows 2003 R2 Standard and looked at some of the Umbraco documentation regarding installation. I choose to use the PL and start by going to http://www.microsoft.com/web/umbraco. This setup asks me a couple of questions regarding the type of database (SQL express) and the password for sa and the umbracouser. No problem so far. It installs 13 needed items, worked ok. I end up with a page that lists the 13 items installed and a link to launch umbraco. Right after the install, I can access web matrix and I can get into the umbraco 'back office', which locally on that VM I can get to by opening a web browser and entering http://localhost:xxxxx/umbraco/umbraco.aspx#content. This is all well and good but working on a VM is not fun through a vSphere Client. So I want to access the umbraco back office through my company workstation, which is on the same network as the VM with Umbraco on it, the problem is that I don't know how to? I looked in the admin guide and it says to access and login, just "enter the address of the website you want to edit, plus /umbraco/ e.g. http://www.company.com/umbraco/." Ok, this is the embarassing part, I don't know the address of the website or how to find it? Can someone please explain in layman's terms? Thank you so much. Marc
NEWBIE-How do I access Umbraco from the company network?
Hi, I am brand new to Umbraco and apologize for the lack of knowledge here. My company asked me to deploy Umbraco on a virtual machine. I set up the VM with Windows 2003 R2 Standard and looked at some of the Umbraco documentation regarding installation. I choose to use the PL and start by going to http://www.microsoft.com/web/umbraco. This setup asks me a couple of questions regarding the type of database (SQL express) and the password for sa and the umbracouser. No problem so far. It installs 13 needed items, worked ok. I end up with a page that lists the 13 items installed and a link to launch umbraco. Right after the install, I can access web matrix and I can get into the umbraco 'back office', which locally on that VM I can get to by opening a web browser and entering http://localhost:xxxxx/umbraco/umbraco.aspx#content. This is all well and good but working on a VM is not fun through a vSphere Client. So I want to access the umbraco back office through my company workstation, which is on the same network as the VM with Umbraco on it, the problem is that I don't know how to? I looked in the admin guide and it says to access and login, just "enter the address of the website you want to edit, plus /umbraco/ e.g. http://www.company.com/umbraco/." Ok, this is the embarassing part, I don't know the address of the website or how to find it? Can someone please explain in layman's terms? Thank you so much. Marc
in a command prompt on the VM run
ipconfig
make a note of the
IPv4 Address
and
Subnet Mask
now do the same from your desktop
if the subnet masks match try pinging the VM from the desktop
ping {ipv4 address}
where {ipv4 addess} is the value from the VM
if that works then in the desktops browser
enter the ip address again
if that does not work add /umbraco on to the url
once all that is working, you can either add the ip address to your hosts file or convinve the sys admin to add the ip address to the local DNS
so you can use a nice name like umbraco.companyname.com instead of the ip address.
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