There a couple of things...
1. If you have web sharing turned on, then your computer is already acting like a webserver, and so you have to tell RB to use a different port then 80. I did this, my rb listens on 8888, so I have to put in my iphone the ipaddress:8888.
2. Your iphone has to be connected to your local network, and the only way to do this is through wifi. So you have to have wifi in your location, and the iphone has to be on the wifi network. This is because if it is on your local network, then it can see your mac. I am assuming you have cable or dsl, and so therefore behind a NAT network. If you are using EDGE, or the normal ATT internet connection, you iphone is trying to connect to your imac through the cell tower it is on. This IS possible, however, you would have to go into the admin of your router, and tell the router that port 8888 (assuming you have rb listening on 8888) should be forwarded to the ip address of your imac. This makes it more complicated, and also, you have exposed full control of your imac through rb to the outside world, so you better use a good password.
The easiest way to get this done is to use a wifi connection in your house, from the iphone.
1. If you have web sharing turned on, then your computer is already acting like a webserver, and so you have to tell RB to use a different port then 80. I did this, my rb listens on 8888, so I have to put in my iphone the ipaddress:8888.
2. Your iphone has to be connected to your local network, and the only way to do this is through wifi. So you have to have wifi in your location, and the iphone has to be on the wifi network. This is because if it is on your local network, then it can see your mac. I am assuming you have cable or dsl, and so therefore behind a NAT network. If you are using EDGE, or the normal ATT internet connection, you iphone is trying to connect to your imac through the cell tower it is on. This IS possible, however, you would have to go into the admin of your router, and tell the router that port 8888 (assuming you have rb listening on 8888) should be forwarded to the ip address of your imac. This makes it more complicated, and also, you have exposed full control of your imac through rb to the outside world, so you better use a good password.
The easiest way to get this done is to use a wifi connection in your house, from the iphone.
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