Accessing Web Server Over Network

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Crashin
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Accessing Web Server Over Network

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I've got Apache installed on one machine (XP home) on my network, and can use it freely via http://localhost on that machine.

How can I access the web server from another machine on my network? If I go to another computer on my network and enter http://<ip-address-of-Apache-machine>/, I get Apache's "If you can see this, it means that the installation of the Apache web server software on this system was successful" message. However, I cannot locate any of my content that I've got on the server.

I'm obviously missing something. :?:
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localhost shows your content correctly?
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sharing

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htdocs should be web-shared. Check if your subfolders are shared.
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Re: sharing

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magicrobotmonkey wrote:localhost shows your content correctly?
Yes, on the machine on which the server is installed.
anjanesh wrote:htdocs should be web-shared. Check if your subfolders are shared.
I'm not familiar with "web-shared?" Do you mean, in terms of XP's sharing policy, or is that a setting in Apache?

Hope that I'm not sounding dense... :oops:
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Oh. Sorry - I think this does not apply when running on Apache. But in IIS the folder HAS to web-shared. I guess Apache doesn't require this ?
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