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Accessing Web Server Over Network

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 9:46 am
by Crashin
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. :?:

Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2004 9:51 am
by magicrobotmonkey
localhost shows your content correctly?

sharing

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 3:54 pm
by anjanesh
htdocs should be web-shared. Check if your subfolders are shared.

Re: sharing

Posted: Wed Jun 23, 2004 4:03 pm
by Crashin
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:

Posted: Thu Jun 24, 2004 11:46 am
by anjanesh
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 ?