If httpd works on localhost, all you need to do is set up DNS to access it from another computer. Alternatively, you can use http(s)://IP_HERE/ to access httpd from another computer.
Make sure that you use Listen 80 and/or Listen 443 to allow all clients to connect. On Wed, 6 Apr 2022 at 05:27, A Z <powerus...@live.com.au> wrote: > Dear Apache, one and all, > > > -I am running Windows 10 64 bit Home Edition. My web browser is Firefox 64 > bit 98.0.2. I have downloaded and am using XAMPP 7.4.28 from > https://www.apachefriends.org/download.html. > > I am using WordPress 5.9.2. I used the free version of Elementor 3.6.2 as > my page builder. In Permalinks I have selected ‘Post name’. I am using the > theme ‘Twenty Twenty-one’ to rely my present website on. I am operating in > an entirely Windows 10 local, home network. > > > I am aware that it is possible to run Apache as a webserver through a > local network only, certainly a Windows one, via the general mood on the > internet. > > > I have changed SSL and Apache default port numbers. I have added ingoing > and outgoing firewall rules on both the client and server PCS, to allow > Apache SSL to get through, and WordPress website SSL as well, apparently, > though not in practice. 🙁 > > I have developed a local WordPress website on my local client PC at home. > It does work on the server machine it was developed on, and I want to test > it through the local network next. > > > I have gotten everything working up to the point where the client computer > in the Network can load the XAMPP dashboard that the server PC is serving. > This seems to imply that I have all my network nodes, firewall rules and > protocol transmission right. But I can’t get my WordPress website to get > transmitted through to the client PC web browser; I simply get a no > connection error message from the client PC. > > > I believe that my problem may be related to the configuring of Apache. I > start and stop Apache through the XAMPP control panel. I can also > immediately access and change the files > > *httpd.conf*, *httpd-ssl.conf* and *htttpd-xampp.conf*, although I have > only adjusted the first two. > > > Is there anything better that I can do to get my WordPress Elementor > website to be viewable by Firefox on another PC inside the local network? > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@httpd.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@httpd.apache.org
