I have my IP Address of 192.168.1.119 and I want to put my server online so other (sharing same LAN) can access it I have tried to change few configs and it didn't work, I have changed my port from 80 t0 8080 as I have IIS running on port 80. Here is my apache config(httpd.conf) file details.
I am not getting what is wrong with my config files or is there something missing that I need to setup?
Note: I have selected "Put Online" option from WAMP Server context menu.
http://192.168.1.119:8080/index.php
You can access this on your local network. If you want to access your content from web then you need to check your ip address then hit the same in browser with correct port number. https://www.whatismyip.com/ for public ip address.
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As a newbie set up mediawiki in apache httpd on my linux pc. In the corresponding .conf file "require all granted'" is set. The pc was assigned static IP 192.168.0.2 by the router. The port 80 of the pc is opened for any device. I visited http://192.168.0.2/mediawiki/index.php from the host. It worked as expected. Now I tried to visit the same address from my android phone connected to the same network and I was presented with the message "127.0.0.1 refused to connect" by chrome. I noticed that the part http://192.168.0.2 had been replaced by https://127.0.0.1 in the address bar. The same thing also occurred on Firefox on my phone. I can still visit http://192.168.0.2 from my phone and it works just fine. So what is happening here and how to solve this problem?
EDIT: The problem is solved. Mediawiki has this LocalSettings.php file which gets automatically created during installation. It contains a field "$wgServer" which is the "The protocol and server name to use in fully-qualified URLs" as shown in the documentation. This value was automatically set to "http://127.0.0.1" during the installation. Thereby whenever I was trying to connect to mediawiki from my phone I was actually getting redirected to that same phone. I changed the value to "http://192.168.0.2" and now everything is working fine!
Looks like something happened at the connection from your mobile phone to the pc hosting the web server.
Your configuration looks fine even tho you provided almost no details at all: according to your description, I suspect the problem is on your phone or on your router because the domain and url switched from 192.168.0.2 to 127.0.0.1 and the protocol switched from http to https.
You should try the same test from another pc connected to the same network.
You can have a better understanding of what's happening, testing the connection from command line using curl:
$ curl -v http://192.168.0.2/mediawiki/index.php
The output will give you some details of what's going on if the redirect was requested by the webserver or not.
My guess is that your apache is configured to listen to 127.0.0.1 or localhost (it's the default). Open httpd.conf or your virtual host configuration file and look for Listen. Here's some snippets from the official documentation:
The Listen directive tells the server to accept incoming requests only on the specified port(s) or address-and-port combinations. If only a port number is specified in the Listen directive, the server listens to the given port on all interfaces. If an IP address is given as well as a port, the server will listen on the given port and interface. Multiple Listen directives may be used to specify a number of addresses and ports to listen on. The server will respond to requests from any of the listed addresses and ports.
For example, to make the server accept connections on both port 80 and port 8000, on all interfaces, use:
Listen 80
Listen 8000
To make the server accept connections on port 80 for one interface, and port 8000 on another, use
Listen 192.0.2.1:80
Listen 192.0.2.5:8000
More information at
https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/bind.html
I am using proxy server address proxy1.xxx.xxx.xx to connect the internet using port number 8888 and when i want to connect to my localhost project it bring error
The requested URL could not be retrieved
but if I did not use proxy server it work correctly
how can I configer to connect with proxy server on. I am working in wamp server
here is my httpd.conf
ServerName localhost:81
HostnameLookups Off
The proxy can't see your local server because it only exists on your machine, and can't be accessed from the outside.
If you tell the proxy "connect to localhost", the proxy tries to connect to 127.0.0.1, which is its own machine, not yours.
If you want to do so, you must configure your webserver and router to accept remote connections on that port, and give the proxy your public IP address instead of localhost
Try to allow the proxy to by-pass local addresses and add your localhost to the list of exceptions. To do so using Chrome:
Go to Settings, Advanced Settings
Navigate to, Change proxy settings then LAN Settings
Click on the checkbox, Bypass proxy for local addresses as shown in the image below.
Check: Bypass proxy for local addresses
This should allow you to access your localhost from behind the proxy server.
from default httpd.conf to updating the host file and httpd.conf i tried but the website fails to open with domain name give
in host file
<my current public ip address> <domain name>
in httpd.conf
Listen [my public ip]:port
then restart of wamp server and finally restart of PC and of-course change of ip is done in above all.
But of no use
Please help
Thanks for time and response
Aaron,
I think you are misunderstanding the function of the HOSTS file.
The hosts file acts a little like a local DNS Server. Any changes you make to it will only effect the single PC that you made the change on.
What the HOST file actually does
When windows starts it starts a service called DNS Client also known as dnscache. That service reads the HOSTS file and seeds the dnscache with any domain names you put in it and the ip that should be connected to for each domain name.
Any program (the browser in this case) that wants to connect to a domain, checks this cache first, to reduce accesses to an actual DNS Server out on the web and therefore speed up the conversion of domain name to Ip Address.
So if you want external users, i.e. anybody on the internet to be able to access your site you have to either purchase a real domain name and get it pointed to your WAN ip address, or use a Dynamic DNS service like DYNDNS or NO-IP, to mention only a few, and get that dynamic dns service to point to your WAN IP.
You will also have to change your Apache config so it will serve that domain name, my suggestion would be to create a Virtual Host to do this.
This post may help with the process of creating a Virtual Host
I have a site in my local which is running under xampp.Now in another Mac I want to access the local site.It can be done via sharing the ip? or something to write in host file.The source machine is windows and the target machine is mac.
I dont know how to include the ip in host file in Mac.
Assuming that it's running on port 80 or 443 and your firewall is set to allow requests on those ports, you should be able to navigate to the ip address in a browser. If you're requesting your local site from outside your subnet then you might need to configure port forwarding on your router
I'm using xampp as a testing host, but I want to be able to access it from anywhere. currently I can access it through localhost only, and through lan by typing my local ip, but not by typing my external ip from anywhere. I tried setting up apache vhosts, but I'm not sure what to put there, examples online aren't very clear, and I don't even know if it works. so if someone could give me a heads up, I'd appreciate!
Log into your router and set up port forwarding to your computer with xampp on it. You probably want to forward port 80 (default for http) to your computer's LAN IP. Then you should be able to access your xampp setup over the Internet by going to your external IP address.
first you need to make sure the incoming traffic on port 80 is not blocked by your firewall or ISP - see this video demo
then you need to configure your Router to forward:
incoming requests to your External IP port 80 towards your Internal IP port 80 - video demo here
and finally test if port open - see this demo