sweenyman wrote:
I suppose i mean basically that I need the apache web server on my old machine to serve webpages to my new computer.
Hope that makes sense
Wow! You're a hardcore Apache noob!
Normally Apache will serve pages to any computer that hits it at the right IP address and port. Let's just forget all about ports
for the time being. If your old machine with the Apache server is at 192.168.0.X, then any machine on the same network should
have access to your old machine via it's IP address. That said, it doesn't matter what your document root is ( c:/apache/htdocs
as an example ). All that's needed by any other computer is the correct IP address.
sweenyman wrote:
On my original machine, it was configured to know that 'localhost' meant C/apache/htdocs or whatever.......
Actually, it was configured to know that localhost was the same thing as your IP address. Localhost
does not refer to the document
root of a web server. Localhost refers to 127.0.0.1.
What is the IP address of your new computer?