Question

I want to host a website on my local network. For some reason I can only access wamp in my local computer.

I have 2 computers in my network. Both computer A and computer B have wamp server installed. when I type the ip address of computer A from computer B I am able to connect to it. But when I do it the other way around it does not work! In other words when I type the ip address of computer B from computer A the browsers says: server at 192.168.0.120 is taking to long to respond.

Things that I have done in order to solve the problem on computer B: (remember I want to connect to computer B from computer A)

1) turn off the firewall

2) Uninstall wamp and reinstall it.

3) turn off the anti-virus.

4) turn off windows firewall

5) Place wamp online and after putting it online restart all services

after doing all those steps I still cannot connect to it from computer B!

I have not chaged any ini file plus I have uninstall it and install it again so why is it not possible to connect to it!? I have used wamp for the last 3 years and I have never experienced this.

Also wamp is the only web server that I have installed on this computer. I don’t have IIS nor any other web server installed on my computer.

Answer 1

Perhaps your Apache is bounded to localhost only. Look in your apache configuration file for:

Listen 127.0.0.1:80

If you found it, replace it with:

Listen 80

Then restart Apache.

(More info about Apache Binding)