Re: Getting XAMPP Apache on Windows 10 to work through local network!

[Frank Gingras <thumbs@xxxxxxxxxx>]

If httpd works on localhost, all you need to do is set up DNS to access it from another computer. Alternatively, you can use http(s)://IP_HERE/ to access httpd from another computer.

Make sure that you use Listen 80 and/or Listen 443 to allow all clients to connect.

On Wed, 6 Apr 2022 at 05:27, A Z <poweruserm@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Dear Apache, one and all,

-I am running Windows 10 64 bit Home Edition. My web browser is Firefox 64 bit 98.0.2. I have downloaded and am using XAMPP 7.4.28 from https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html.

I am using WordPress 5.9.2. I used the free version of Elementor 3.6.2 as my page builder.  In Permalinks I have selected ‘Post name’. I am using the theme ‘Twenty Twenty-one’ to rely my present website on. I am operating in an entirely Windows 10 local, home network.

I am aware that it is possible to run Apache as a webserver through a local network only, certainly a Windows one, via the general mood on the internet.

I have changed SSL and Apache default port numbers. I have added ingoing and outgoing firewall rules on both the client and server PCS, to allow Apache SSL to get through, and WordPress website SSL as well, apparently, though not in practice. 🙁

I have developed a local WordPress website on my local client PC at home. It does work on the server machine it was developed on, and I want to test it through the local network next.

I have gotten everything working up to the point where the client computer in the Network can load the XAMPP dashboard that the server PC is serving. This seems to imply that I have all my network nodes, firewall rules and protocol transmission right. But I can’t get my WordPress website to get transmitted through to the client PC web browser; I simply get a no connection error message from the client PC.

I believe that my problem may be related to the configuring of Apache.  I start and stop Apache through the XAMPP control panel.  I can also immediately access and change the files

httpd.conf, httpd-ssl.conf and htttpd-xampp.conf, although I have only adjusted the first two.

Is there anything better that I can do to get my WordPress Elementor website to be viewable by Firefox on another PC inside the local network?

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