Cannot access wamp server on local network - apache

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.

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!!

Perhaps your Apache is bounded to localhost only. Look in your apache configuration file for:
Listen 127.0.0.1:80
If you found it, replace it with:
Listen 80
Then restart Apache.
(More info about Apache Binding)

1.
first of all
Port 80(or what ever you are using) and 443 must be allow for both TCP and UDP packets. To do this, create 2 inbound rules for TPC and UDP on Windows Firewall for port 80 and 443.
(or you can disable your whole firewall for testing but permanent solution if allow inbound rule)
2.
If you are using WAMPServer 3 See bottom of answer
For WAMPServer versions <= 2.5
You need to change the security setting on Apache to allow access from anywhere else, so edit your httpd.conf file.
Change this section from :
# onlineoffline tag - don't remove
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from ::1
Allow from localhost
To :
# onlineoffline tag - don't remove
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
if "Allow from all" line not work for your then use "Require all granted"
then it will work for you.
WAMPServer 3 has a different method
In version 3 and > of WAMPServer there is a Virtual Hosts pre defined for localhost so dont amend the httpd.conf file at all, leave it as you found it.
Using the menus, edit the httpd-vhosts.conf file.
It should look like this :
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot D:/wamp/www
<Directory "D:/wamp/www/">
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Amend it to
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot D:/wamp/www
<Directory "D:/wamp/www/">
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Note:if you are running wamp for other than port 80 then VirtualHost will be like VirtualHost *:86.(86 or port whatever you are using) instead of VirtualHost *:80
3.
Dont forget to restart All Services of Wamp or Apache after making this change

go Setting -> General and change url in WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL)
enter your pc name or your ip address in place of localhost
before : http://localhost/wordpress-test
after : http://your-pc-name/wordpress-test
...and that's it..you can access wordpress from any pc in your LAN...!!!

I had to uninstall my anti virus! Before uninstalling I clicked on the option where it said to disable auto-protect for 15 min. I also clicked on another option that supposibly disabled the anti-virus. That still was blocking my server! I don't understand why Norton makes it so hard to literally stop doing everything it's doing. I know I could had solve it by adding an exception to the firewall but Norton was taking care of windows firewall as well.

Wamp server share in local network
Reference Link: http://forum.aminfocraft.com/blog/view/141/wamp-server-share-in-local-netword
Edit your Apache httpd.conf:
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
#Deny from all
and
#onlineoffline tag - don't remove
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
#Deny from all
to share mysql server:
edit wamp/alias/phpmyadmin.conf
<Directory "E:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin3.2.0.1/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
#Deny from all
Allow from all

I had the same issue, tried all nothing works, following works for me
Following is what i had
#onlineoffline tag - don't remove
Require local
Change to
Require all granted
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all

I know this is an old post BUT I have been having problems getting WAMP server seen on my windows 7 pro network for days, tried all of the solutions offered (including changing windows system files) but still not working. finally in pure desperation I put everything on the system back as it was and installed WAMP Server on a different drive (E:\WAMP ) in my case. The result was it worked perfectly first time with no editing configs or messing with the system. Other users may wish to try this before reaching the 'tear your hair out stage', it certainly saved my sanity or what I have left of it
I hope this helps someone
Dave

If you are using wamp stack, it will be fixed by open port in Firewall (Control Pannel). It work for my case (detail how to open port 80: https://tips.alocentral.com/open-tcp-port-80-in-windows-firewall/)

I had the same problem but mine worked fine. Turn off your firewall, antivirus. Make sure your port 80 is enabled and both pcs are set to be remotely accessed. In each pc under users, add new user using the host ip address of the other pc. Restart all services. Put your wampserver online. It should connect

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Accessing local host from another machine

I have seen many answers on this with what would appear to be simple solutions, none of which are working for me at this time.
I have WAMP install with Apache 2.4.33 32bit installed on a PC. I can access the site on that PC without a problem using the alias mySite.local.
The PC's host file looks like this
127.0.0.1 mySite.local
The remote lap top's host file is
192.168.1.114 mySite.local
That is the IP of the PC on the network.
httpd.conf
Listen 80
ServerName mySite.local:80
<Directory />
AllowOverride none
Require all denied
</Directory>
DocumentRoot "H:/Intranet/mySite_v2_www/public"
httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mySite.local
DocumentRoot "H:/Intranet/mySite_v2_www/public"
</VirtualHost>
I have tried disabling the windows firewall and virus checker on the PC.
The laptop appears to be getting there but being blocked. The message is..
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Apache/2.4.33 (Win32) PHP/7.2.4 Server at mySite.local Port 80
So it looks like it can see Apache but is being blocked. So what else needs to be set to get access to the server?
Here are two of the links that I have been following to try and get this to work
Error message "Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server"
and
How do I connect to this localhost from another computer on the same network?
Thanks for any direction you can provide.
To complement the answer of Paul Neale:
Forbidden You don't have permission to access / on this server. Apache/2.4.33 (Win32) PHP/7.2.4 Server at mySite.local Port 80
That message is an answer from Apache. Disabling the windows firewall and virus checker on the PC won't have any effect, you are already reaching Apache there is not any networking problem.
Apache is receiving your request to access the root folder "public":
H:/Intranet/mySite_v2_www/public
But denies the request because, the directive Require local is enabled. This directive means, you can access to the content of public from the local server (localhost), which is the same to say 127.0.0.0 or localhost.
What you wanted is to tell apache that allows the access of certain IP address to the root directory "public".
When you changed the directive to Require all granted you are telling apache that, no matter who asks, give it access to / (root folder) in other words "public".
So, what you was searching for is "Access Control" in apache, and the directive Require can be used with IP address, here's the main document from Apache, this is an example:
Require host address
Require ip ip.address
It's important to differentiate between Network//Permissions problems. If you want to know if you are able to communicate (At network level) with Apache, you could do:
telnet <IP_APACHE_SERVER> <PORT_APACHE_SERVER>
#example: telnet 172.10.10.2 80
So after playing around will combinations for a day I found that in the httpd.conf I needed to change Require local to Require all granted in the section.
<Directory "H:/Intranet/mySite_v2_www/public/">
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +Multiviews
AllowOverride all
# onlineoffline tag - don't remove
# Require local
Require all granted
</Directory>

Can't access web services via IP but through the host names it does

I'm using a server 2008 r2. There I've installed Wamp on port 8080, SSRS on port 8063 and Some IIS sites on various ports.
I've installed CCproxy on the same server.
The funny thing is, I can't access them via server IP:port (192.168.8.100:8080) But I can, however, access it by Host:port (Mainserver:8080).
Then I thought it might be a clash between those services and installed wamp on a windows 8.1 computer and even that I can't access via the IP.
Please help.
Thanks
it looks like you are trying to access your website by using the local IP range 192.168.1.100. In some WAMP default configs, the devs have set the apache config to disallow access except from localhost.
Try to open the httpd.conf file located at
C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache#.#.#\conf\httpd.conf
Find the <Directory "c:/wamp/www"> block and replace the Order Deny,Allow and everything that follows with Order Allow,Deny followed by Allow from all. The end result should look like something similar to this:
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www"
<Directory "c:/wamp/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
To be safe, look into the virtual hosts config file and see if you find any Order Deny,Allow directives and replace them as well. The file is located at C:\wamp\bin\Apache#.#.#\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
You can read more about Order Directive from the Apache Documentation

WAMP 3.1 setup on Windows 10. Can't access online

I've been trying two days straight to make this work. I want to make my server available online so I can work with another guy on this project. The goal is mainly to have two things:
The www website available through my public ip
MySQL available to him so he can work
This computer has:
Windows 10 Pro
WAMP 3.1
Node.JS
I went through the configuration of the vhost of wamp, port forwarding in my router and this doesn't work:
# Virtual Hosts
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName 192.168.2.51
ServerAlias localhost
DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www"
<Directory "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/">
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
I put back what was in http.conf because that's the first thing I modified at first until I discover the new WAMP wasn't using this anymore.
I though Node.JS could conflict so I shut it down. I also shut most process using port 80 but still no luck.
I used an online port checker. The result is positive and it seems to go through, at least from their POV. And I did a netstat to check if I had 0.0.0.0:80 so everything seems fine on that side.
The port 80 tester of WAMP even says it's fine so I'm guessing it must be in the Virtual host but I have no idea how to set it up properly and documentation is not helping a lot.
What am I missing?
regards,

Can't access apache from Internet

It must be a common question but I've not found any appropriate answer:
I have a website on apache server running in my office LAN. I can view pages from all computers (even smart-phones via Wifi).
All computers are connected to a router (with static IPs) which supports port forwarding.
I forwarded the routers port 8080 to the internal IP 192.168.1.5:80 which is the apache box (xubuntu 14.04).
The problem is that when I try to view the site from the internet, I always get connection refused response. I tried the http://www.canyouseeme.org but still the response is the same. This happens both when I try from my LAN->Internet->Router->Apache or directly from home Internet->Router->Apache.
I know (rather suspect) that the routed does its job because if I hit the external static IP:80 I get into its interface while when I hit IP:8080 I get the connection refused response. Canyouseeme agrees (it times out as it's waiting for a password).
Funny(?) thing is that I have not installed a firewall and the apache2.conf is the default.
Can somebody help?
Finally it is all clear; my ISP didn't allow to set the routers firewall so every setting I made was void.
So to recap first make sure that your ISP is really forwarding your ports.
However I couldn't up my site (zoneminder app) so I write down the solution in case someone else finds it useful:
First of all I assume that Apache is running without problems with the default settings. In case that you want to make a site (in your system you'll see directory) available as the root site of your apache serer, you must create a "rule" for apache:
First copy the 000-default.conf file that lies in /etc/apache2/sites-available/ directory (in Ubuntu systems) by executing
sudo cp /etc/apache2/sites-available/000-default.conf /etc/apache2/sites-available/mysite.conf
The mysite.conf file will be a setting for virtual host and you will need to add/change contents accordingly with:
DocumentRoot /my/site/directory
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /my/site/directory/>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
Don't forget to change (if needed) the port apache is listening to by editing the /etc/apache2/ports.conf.

WAMP - World Wide Access

I have installed WAMP on my computer running Windows 7. The Apache is running on port 80. I am searching here and there and everybody has its own solution. None of it fulfil the requirement.
Information:
Local IP: 192.168.15.52
External IP: 139.190.233.170 (Collected from whatsmyip.org)
Changed httpd.conf file:
ServerName 139.190.233.170:80
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www"
<Directory "c:/wamp/www">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order Deny,Allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
I have also added some rule for port 80 in Windows Firewall and also forward port for my LAN IP. Here is the pic:
Nothing happens after all that. Clicking "Put Online" and watching it to go green, nothing happens. I can access www directory by either localhost IP address (127.0.0.1) or my LAN IP address (192.168.15.152).
Questions:
Is it really possible to put WAMP for world wide access?
If it is possible, then how?
I have been searching around but none of them works. I have also searched SO:
Unable to access wamp server from outside my computer
How can i put my WAMP online for someone to access?
e.t.c
Some external sites:
http://www.computerforums.org/forums/server-administration/wamp-server-wont-work-outside-lan-help-207071.html
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091005091249AAQrHxR
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-accessing-wp-externally-using-wamp
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-hosted-wp-wamp-server-not-connecting-externally
http://webhosting.bigresource.com/WAMP-Access-Website-with-my-WAN-IP-pg1Bh4bJ.html
http://guides.jlbn.net/setaccess/setaccess1.html
It is possible, yes.
I would suggest momentarily disabling the firewalls, trying the connection and seeing if it works. If it does, you know it's firewall - turn windows one on and the other one by one to eliminate them. If it doesn't, you know you have issues.
Remember to run httpd -t from the command prompt to verify that your config is free of errors and of course make sure you restart apache and the W is green in the task bar. Make sure it actually is restarting, too - as some times things like mail servers (hMailServer I am particularly aware of) can stop it happening. In this case you need to restart the wampapache service from the services control panel (Start > services.msc).
Here's some extra info though, as you might be better setting up dynamic DNS. I use DynDNS and have the following vhosts conf:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName mysite.dyndns.org
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
DocumentRoot /home/mysite/
<Directory /home/mysite/>
AllowOverride All
Allow from All
</Directory>
# some logging stuff I cut out here
</VirtualHost>
Put that in mysite.conf inside c:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.21/conf/virtual. The mysite.dyndns.org is the host I have set up at dyndns. Finally, to make virtual hosts work, add this to your httpd.conf:
NameVirtualHost *:80
Include "c:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.21/conf/virtual/*.conf"
Now, if it still doesn't work you you probably have other issues. Can you telnet on port 80 to that above address? See above firewall issues.