This tutorial will show you how to access your computer’s localhost for a remote machine. We will need to forward incoming requests to the computer with localhost setup on it.

Step One: Gathering Information

Windows: Click Start>Run and type cmd and press <Enter>. A DOS windows will come up, when it does type “ipconfig/all” and press <Enter>. What we came her for are the lines “Default Gateway” and “ip address”, after you locate these lines write them down to be used later.

Mac: Open Applications>Utilities>Terminal. In the terminal window type “ipconfig getpacket en0″ if you have an Ethernet connection, or “ipconfig getpacket en1″ for wireless. What we came her for are the lines “yiaddr” and “siaddr”, after you locate these line write them down to be used later.

Now, we need to get our IP address for this go to whatismyip.com and write down that number as well.