Making WAMP server available over local network [closed]

Question

I have WAMP server2 installed on my main machine (PC running Windows 7). I am using it to develop several websites and I want it to be available to the other machines on my local network through wireless. The other two computers are a Mac running OSX and a netbook PC running Ubuntu.

I don't even need access to MySQL from the other computers, I just want to be able to view the dev sites and use the CMS (add & change files via the web interface) that they are built on from the other machines.

Here is what I have done so far:

• Put the server online
• Changed the IP on the windows machine to static
• Configured windows firewall to allow all incoming Apache requests, as well as port 80 (TCP & UDP) and port 3306
• Uninstalled WAMP server which was running off an external drive and reinstalled it (and then added project folders and databases) on C:\
• Installed this Wamp server patch
• Manually configured the Apache httpd.conf to allow from the specific computer IPs (which are dynamic) as well as the default gateway.
• Turned windows firewall off completely
• Restarted all services after each change

After editing the httpd.conf file, I can access the main WAMP page from the browser on the other machines, but I cannot access the project folders, even when typing in the address manually (i.e. 192.168.x.x/project-name). It redirects to localhost/project-name and results in a page not found.

Answer 1

I think what it can be is that you are, in some place of the wamp server configuration refering to it as localhost and not by it's IP (or name).

When accessing it, it redirects the requests to localhost..

Answer 2

Have you checked the .htaccess in each website folder ? It looks like your .htaccess redirect requests to http://localhost/xxxx

On wordpress you also need to change the website URL in the admin > settings > general

For both, replace localhost by the public IP of your server (192.168.x.x).