Any help is greatly appreciated, I have a brand new installation of  DNN 7.04 on windows 2012 with SQL 2012 on a VM running inside VMware player 7, and it was working fine.  However, I couldn't get to it from the host machine.  Reading other posts, this was due to the fact that I had the vm guest set to "NAT: Used to share the hosts IP address", and the recommendation was to change to "Bridged: Connected directly to the physical network".  When I change this, the DNN instance now gets an IP like the VM host, but my DNN site wont run.  I've checked the SQL instance and I can still access SQL server correctly, not sure if this is an issue with IIS or something else not working correctly now that the DNN VM guest has a different IP address.

Any suggestions? 

thanks!

I would disable DHCP NAT inside the VMware machine and then set the server to a static IP address and point it to the gateway set in the NAT settings. Then you need to create NAT rules that forward requests from your host to the VMWare guest. You also need to create host entries for the domain that site runs on and of course you need to add host headers in IIS for that domain. This was you can mimic a productions environment very easily. A great tool is https://hostswitcher.codeplex.com/ that you can use on your host to quickly change from develop to production and vica versa. One thing...in your DEV site put an image in your DNN site that says Development Site or whatever so that you know where you are working on.....tip :)

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