Accessing My Apache Server On My Home Network

[chestertb]

Hi All,

I've installed Apache 2.0 on a WinXP machine in a home network. I use the Apache machine for casual development.

I want to be able to access the Apache server from the other machines in my home network. I am absolutely clueless on where to start.

If someone could point me in the direction of a tutorial, that would be very useful.

Thanks
CTB

[PhillMc]

Ok, are you asking how to access your apache server for configuring remotely?

If so, I don't know of a direct way to do this, but I know of an indirect way. If you are running Win XP Pro on that machine, then you can control the computer itself remotely though Remote Desktop Connection (under Programs/Accessories/Communications on the start menu). If you aren't running XP Pro, but XP Home (Windows will not allow you to control an XP home machine remotely), you can download realVNC (www.realvnc.com) , it's basically the same thing as RDC, but it's platform independant and has no restrictions on what types of OS's you can control. You'll have to have the VNC server running on the machine you want to control, and the VNC view running on the controlling maching. Just read through the site, it's pretty strait forward.

I hope this is helpful.

[chestertb]

Thanks Phil.

I don't actually want to be able to access Apache. I just want the machine Apache is on to act as a server within my home network.

What I want to be able to do is have Apache server running on one machine in my home network, and access the web pages on that machine (including server extensions like PHP) from another machine in my home network through its web browser.

I've scoured the web looking for tutorials on setting this up, but thus far haven't been able to find any.

Thanks
CTB

[PhillMc]

Ahh, I gotcha now.

Well, unfortunately, I cannot help with this issue as I use IIS (Internet Information Services) to host pages and sites; I've never used apache.


If it's anything like IIS, you'll have to setup which site gets what ip and port, after you've done that you should be able to visit it by typing http://yourServersNameOrIp
if you site/page is running on a port other that 80, append :p to the address, where p is the port number, note the colon.

I have to do this at work since we have multiple sites and I cannot access them using their public names when I need to make adjustments to them.

Hope this is helpful.

[chestertb]

Doh!

It helps if I set the Sygate firewall to allow Apache to access the network!!!

Thanks for your assistance.

Cheers
CTB

[Stephen Philbin]

I just use http://192.168.1.102/ That's the LAN address assigned to my computer by my primary router.