Share localhost over network wifi [amateur Q]

banquo

On XPsp3.

Using Wamp
Apache 2.2.22

I want to be able to share everything from www down over our home network.

Is this an easy thing to do? Stackoverflow has, like, 80 different opinions.

Cheers for any guidance,

Banquo

RealistSpy

Have you tried opening ports on your router?

banquo

Nope. This is an area where, in the past, doctors have borderline recommended blood pressure medicine. Do you know off hand if there are any specific ports I've to open, or if it varies by provider / router model / os version / Wamp version?

biko

Try this:
Click your WAMP icon on your system tray and choose the option "Put Online".
After doing so, go to your command prompt (Start -> Run -> Cmd [Press Enter] ) . Now type the command ipconfig. You will see your system's IP. Make note of that IP. Say your IP is 192.XXX.XXX.XX.
Now you can access your localhost files as http://192.XXX.XXX.XX/myfile.php which is synonymous to http://localhost/myfile.php
This URL could be accessed even from outside world. So be cautious !

percy212

If port 80 is open cant you just use the machine ip address?

banquo

Was getting Forbidden.

Have read easily two dozen articles on Stack Overflow. Turns out Wamp has a "Put online" option. So testing that now.

If this works, it will explain exactly why I never pursued IT.

percy212

Maybe another app is hogging 80 - http://www.sitepoint.com/unblock-port-80-on-windows-run-apache/

Best of luck. I left IT for sanity purposes

banquo

It worked!

mneylon

biko wrote: »

http://192.XXX.XXX.XX/myfile.php which is synonymous to http://localhost/myfile.php
This URL could be accessed even from outside world. So be cautious !

No it can't

The only way it would be accessible from "outside" is if you had the public IP address

The 192.* address is private IP space and is not reachable from outside your network

biko

Indeed you're right, without port forwarding it won't be accessible.
Maybe even a change in httpd.conf would be needed.