How to access WAMP Server form everywhere? - apache

Question

I just created my first homepage in the last weeks and now I want it to show it to my friends.
I am using WAMPSERVER 2.5 and followed A LOT of guides but nothing really worked for me.
First of all I am new to this, I have no idea how all this accessing works exactly. I guess I point out how I understand that it should work.
On my PC where I wrote my htmls css php and so on I can access via
localhost:8080/foldername/homepage.php
Okay I changed the port from 80 to 8080 cause a lot of guides recommenced it.
A few days ago I was able to reach this with my local IP
192.168.2.103/foldername/homepage.php
or something like this
I have no Idea how I did that and at the moment it doesn't work anymore.
My httpd.config file is also pretty messed up (and too long to post here), maybe I should reinstall WAMP.
Okay to come back to my question: If I set up everything correctly will I be able to access my homepage on my PC via
http://IPv4-address/homepage.php
like http://91.11.87.45/homepage.php
without buying a domain and only having WAMP installed? The page is intended not to be online 24/7 only when I and my friends need it, or WAMP is always online when my PC is powered.
I already did
- "Put Online"
- portforwarding on router and firewall
- turned off firewall/antivir
- changed httpd.conf and httpd-vhost.conf accordingly to the guides I read
- tried every combination of ips and ports to access homepage.php
and now I am out of Ideas. But I guess I'm not the only one with problems, because all those guides comments where full of questions and problems^^
I hope I explained the problem well enough :P

Answer 1

When you access it from inside the same network, you would still need the 8080:
192.168.2.103:8080/foldername/homepage.php
But if you are outside the network, it would depend on how your port is forwarded. If you have port 8080 forwarded to 192.168.2.103 port 8080, then you would need:
http://91.11.87.45:8080/foldername/homepage.php (also folder name would still be same as if it were localhost)
If on your router you have port 80 forwarded to 192.168.2.103 port 8080, then
http://91.11.87.45/foldername/homepage.php
should work, but some routers are funny and can only do the in port as the same as outport, just to a specific internal address.
so if you can do:
localhost:8080/foldername/homepage.php
and can also do:
192.168.2.103:8080/foldername/homepage.php
but CAN'T do:
-http://91.11.87.45:8080/foldername/homepage.php
OR
-http://91.11.87.45/foldername/homepage.php
then the trouble is in the port forwarding of the router.
If you CAN'T do:
192.168.2.103:8080/foldername/homepage.php
Then sounds like something in WAMP config