Cannot access wamp server on local network

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Tono Nam picture Tono Nam · Nov 21, 2011 · Viewed 103.9k times · Source

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

John E Pace II Gostrath picture John E Pace II Gostrath · Jun 23, 2012

Turn off your firewall for port 80 from any address. Turn off 443 if you need https (SSL) access. Open the configuration file (http.conf) and find the lines that say:

Allow from 127.0.0.1

Change them to read

Allow from all

Restart the wampserver. It will now work. Enjoy!!

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