New Development SharePoint Site

Question

To creat a new SharePoint Site, I first created a new web application, then a new site collection at the root of that web application.

I bound the site to the domain devsite in IIS.

If I edit the server's host file pointing devsite to the localhost with the line

127.0.0.1   devsite

...it works great.

How can I make this devsite accessible from other machines on the network?

The network I am on is pretty big and I am trying to figure this out without bothering the admins.

Answer 1

You either have to add an entry for 'devsite' to your network DNS or modify the hosts file on all of the machines to point to the actual IP address of your dev machine. The 127.0.0.1 address would only work on the machine itself.