I am trying to publish a website using a wamp server v3.0.6 located on my own PC. I can access the site from my PC using the domain name "mysite.com" and ignoring the proxy for this site. The problem is that I can not access from other PCs that are on the same LAN network of the company. When I enter "mysite.com" in the browser of another PC without a proxy, an "Unable to connect" message is displayed, and with proxy, it leaves :
Network Access Message: The website can not be found.
Error Code 11001: Host not found
Background: This error indicates that the gateway could not find the IP address of the website you are trying to access. This is usually due to a DNS-related error.
The firewall of my PC is turned off.
What could be the problem?
mysite.com is a domain name. I don't know how you have managed to direct this name to your local machine (editing the hosts file is the simplest approach for that), but you have to make all other computers know about the name-ip pairing you have used. And you need to pair the name with an address that is visible to others (localhost won't do it). If you have a machine that is part of a corporate infrastructure, you might already have a canonical name for your PC, like pc00144.yourcompany.com. If there is no firewall on your PC or the port you are using to serve the web content is open, then all who can ping your pc should be able to connect to your site. If it is the only site in your wamp and it is not configured to use virtual hosts, than it should be connectable by IP also.
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Goal
I am trying to setup a secure connection to a PC in our network.
The goal is to be able to access a domain, api.mydomain.test, on that PC, that is served by Apache.
Setup
To securely connect to the server, I have implemented the Softether VPN Server on the PC. The VPN network must be separate from our own local network, which the PC is also on.
The idea is to add an IP whitelist in the vhost record op Apache to allow only people on the VPN subnet to connect to the domain api.mydomain.test. Next to this filter, we also added a firewall to the PC to not allow any connection on port 80 or 443.
Issue
I can connect to the VPN perfectly and receive an IP ofthe subnet 10.11.12.x.
However, I can't seem to be able to access the server on localhost or via the IP of the other network the PC is on (10.10.2.x).
To be frank, I don't even know how to do this when connected to the VPN.
What have I tried?
Use a local tap bridge instead of virtualNAT and virtual DHCP.
This was not working as expected, because then the VPN clients (my laptop) did not receive an IP.
Add routes to allow 10.11.12.x IPs to access localhost.
According to documentation of Softether, the virtual NAT does not use the routes, so this would be useless for our goal.
What I do not know, is how this is normally setup?
I have the feeling I am trying to do this the wrong way, so any ideas or different approaches would be greatly appreciated!
I set up my pi to broadcast it's own "wifi" and I have an Apache server running on it.
I used this tutorial https://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-wifi-access-point
I can currently connect to the network that the pi is broadcasting and go to the ip of the server on my phone and it brings up the webpage, but I want to be able to type in "mydomain.net" and have it bring me to the webpage. Can anyone help me with this or suggest anything?
I want anyone that wants to connect to this local wifi (not worldwide) to be able to enter the website so changing everyone's host file is not going to happen.
you can modify /etc/hosts file on your local machine to point the custom domain name to the IP address of the environment you want to test. The /etc/hosts file contains a mapping of IP addresses to URLs.
Your browser uses entries in the /etc/hosts file to override the IP-address-to-URL mapping returned by a DNS server.
This is only useful for testing DNS (domain name system) changes and the SSL configuration before making a website live.
I have a website hosted on my Raspberry Pi, in my home. I can access it with no problems from wifi networks other than my own. However, on my home wifi, if I type the address (damson.dnsdynamic.com) into Firefox:
"The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading"
Or into Chrome:
"Unable to load the webpage because the server sent no data.
Error code: ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE"
Why is this? Why does it work fine everywhere except this network?
Thank you for your time
You can only use local ip adress while on local network.
You could use a proxy server if you want to test the domain.
Some routers cannot handle their Internet facing IP being accessed from inside the LAN.
You should either use a LAN IP address or upgrade your router.
I can point a url to a directory in my computer by setting /etc/host and /private/etc/apache2/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf files. For instance, when i type sample-app.com in my computer, website under /Users/azad/works/sample-app.com folder is running.
When someone type sample-app.com in another computer in same local network i want to display the same website located on my computer. Is this possible?
By the way, i don't have access to any computer in the local network and i can't do any configuration.
Mac 10.7.5 (I am using mac but if windows is better for this purpose i can use windows too),
PHP 5.3,
Apache 2.2
If you want to accomplish this on windows, use the hosts file on the computers you want to point at that sample-app.com URL mapping your IP address to that URL in all the computers you want that to work on. Then make sure your HTTP server is configured to serve that website under that host name for port 80.
Since you aren't able to configure the local network, the best way to handle this situation is to configure a host name with the website domain's DNS server, such as dev.sample-app.com, which points to the local IP address (seeing as how its on the local network) of the computer hosting the website. This will then allow other computers on the local network to enter this host name to access the webiste.
If you had control of the local network's DNS server or control of the proxy (if they have a proxy), there would, of course, be other options.
Update:
Since you mentioned in your comment that you have control over the DNS server, here is how you could accomplish your goal via the DNS server. First, add a forward lookup zone for sample-app.com to the DNS server. Second, configure the default host for the zone to point to the computer serving up the website content. Now the client computers will resolve the local IP when the user enters sample-app.com into their web browsers. If you need to continue to have access to other hosts on sample-app.com, you might want to try asking about it on serverfault.
I am trying to host a website from my local pc. For that i have installed apache server, registered a domain name and done the necessary settings.The problem is that when I am trying to access my homepage I am getting the router configuration page, same is happening when I am trying to access the website from other computer.Please help.
When hosting a website from a local PC behind a router you need to be careful to use the public IP that your service provider has given you. Beware this is often not a static address and may change frequently. To address this you can use some type of DynDNS service if your router supports it.
Second, you will need to add a rule in your router's firewall to allow the traffic from the public internet to reach the computer behind the router. This can be done either with a DMZ (less secure) or a port forwarding.
When you are trying to access the web page, type in the local ip of the computer you have setup the server on. This should take you to the apache server. You are likely just typing in the wrong IP. Try something like http://127.0.0.1/ (127.0.0.1 is the same as localhost) to make sure you get the apache server from the computer that is running the server.