I am new to both Apache and wordpress. I am using Apache 2.2. I have mapped a public IP address to the server on which wordpress is located (192.168.0.99). From anywhere on the same net it is possible to type the public IP address into a browser and get the default Apache page, or type in [public IP address]/wordpress, and get the wordpress page I have set up.
When I attempt the same test from outside the network (e.g. using Safari on a Vodafone 3G), the public IP address brings up the default Apache page, but [public IP address]/wordpress refuses to load anything.
I have set up /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf as follows:
LogLevel debug
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
<Directory "/var/www/html">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot "/var/www/html"
ServerName localhost
ErrorLog /var/log/httpd/my_error_log
CustomLog /var/log/httpd/my_custom_log common
</VirtualHost>
In MySQL,
wordpress.wp_options: option_id: 1,
option_name: siteurl,
option_value: http://192.168.0.99/wordpress,
autoload: yes
my_error_log and my_custom_log both receive sprays of messages, indicating that the Virtual host is gathering requests. When I try to access wordpress from the Vodafone mobile the only entry seen in my_custom_error is:
[Mobile network provider's IP] - - [Date and Time] "GET /wordpress/ HTTP/1.1" 200 99982
There are no entries in my_error_log.
What have I missed?
The problem is that wordpress expects to be hosted on the address that's set in the database. If you happen to access it on a different address, wordpress will redirect you to the address in the database. In your case, the public address will result in wordpress trying to serve the local address.
option_value: http://192.168.0.99/wordpress,
Solution 1: use a hostname. Set up a hostname to point to your public address and enter that as your wordpress's site address.
option_value: http://myhostname.somedomain.com/wordpress,
You can have the hostname point to the local address internally by using hosts file entries or setting up an internal DNS server with the local entry for your chosen hostname. There are services such as noip.com that will provide you with a hostname for free.
Solution 2: Another thing you could do, if you don't mind losing LAN access to the site, is to just update wordpress so that it's using the public rather than private ip address, and it should work as you expect from outside your network.
Related
So, when I use localhost/website/index.php to access index.php, it works just fine, yet when I use a domain name like website.com/website/index.php and try to access index.php from another page, it doesn't redirect me there, but instead, reloads the page it was already on.
Then, when I try to access index.php via the search bar, it throws an error saying This page isn't working.
Does anyone know a fix for this?
You need to set up a vhost for Xampp
Here's an example which should be added to C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#website
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/website"
ServerName website.com
ErrorLog "logs/website-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/website-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
<VirtualHost *:443>
ServerAdmin webmaster#website
DocumentRoot "C:/xampp/htdocs/website"
ServerName website.com
SSLEngine On
SSLCertificateFile "conf/ssl.crt/server.crt"
SSLCertificateKeyFile "conf/ssl.key/server.key"
<Directory "C:/xampp/htdocs/website">
php_flag log_errors on
php_value error_log "logs/website-error.log"
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
php_flag log_errors on
php_value error_log "logs/website-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/website-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
You also need to configure your local hosts file to send requests for website.com to your local IP address.
Your hosts file is here: c:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts
Add an entry:
127.0.0.1 website.com
This will allow you to access the website on your local machine.
To access the website on your local network you can either change all computer's hosts files as above, or add a DNS A record into your network switch (if it supports DNS)
A website.com 192.168.1.51 (this is your LAN IP address)
If you need the internet to access the website on Xampp you need to add an A record to your public IP address in your domain name DNS control panel. You can find your pulic IP address here: https://www.whatismyip.com/ and you will also need to allow traffic on ports 80 and 443 in through your router and firewall.
If you do not have a static IP address from your internet service provider, you will need to update your domain name DNS A record each time your IP address changes - e.g. if you restart your router, and/or periodically)
Please note: Xampp was not designed to be accessible from the internet, it will work but it's not secure. Please read https://www.makeuseof.com/reasons-why-you-should-never-use-xampp-on-production-server/
So I set up a few virtual hosts with unique urls and they work just fine on the desktop. However, when I connect a mobile device on the network, it can't seem to access anything properly but the default localhost virtualhost and that's only when it's the only virtualhost I have up.
My setup and coding is pretty much this except with a different site title
wamp server 3.0 virtual host on another device
and while that solution redirects me to my unique url, it has a lack of images on a default wordpress website.
Has anyone managed to get mobile devices fully accessing links other than on localhost?
Since I posted the answer you referenced, I have decided upon a simpler solution.
What the actual problem is
Because we cannot fiddle with the configuration of a phone like we can with a PC, the phone can never find the domain name we create in our Virtual Host definition on the Server machine, because it does not exist in any DNS Server for it to locate the IP Address in, and a DNS Server is the only place a phone can look, unless it is jail broke.
If you wanted to access one of your Virtual Hosts domains from another PC you could just add a line like this into the HOSTS file on the other PC like this.
192.168.0.10 example.local
But you cannot do that on a phone/tablet.
What Apache expects to be able to asssociate a request to a Vhost
When we create an Apache Virtual Host, we are actually telling Apache to look at the domain name on the incoming connection and match that domain name to a ServerName that exists in one of our multiple Virtual Hosts definitions.
But if we use for example example.local as our virtually hosted domain when we attempt to connect to that from our phone, the phone does a DNS Lookup and does not find that domain and therefore cannot get its ip address.
The simplest way to get round this is:
Assuming we do not have access to adding record to a DNS Server we have to come up with a different solution.
The simplest of these is to use the IP Address of the PC running the WAMPServer(Apache) server and a specific port number. So thats a different port number for each of our sites we want to use from a phone.
So how do we do this
Add the new listening port to httpd.conf like so after the 2 existing Listen statements
WAMPServer 3: Do this using the menus, not by doing a manual edit on httpd.conf
right click wampmanager-> Tools -> Add listen port for Apache
#Listen 12.34.56.78:80
Listen 0.0.0.0:80
Listen [::0]:80
Listen 0.0.0.0:8000
Listen [::0]:8000
Suggested httpd-vhosts.conf file
#
# Virtual Hosts
#
# Always keep localhost, and always first in the list
# this way a ramdom look at your IP address from an external IP
# maybe a hack, will get told access denied
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
DocumentRoot c:/wamp/www
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/">
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
# The normal Vhost definition for one of our sites
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName example.local
DocumentRoot "c:/websrc/example/www"
<Directory "d:/websrc/example/www/">
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
# Access example.dev from phone for testing
<VirtualHost *:8000>
ServerName example.local
DocumentRoot "c:/websrc/example/www"
<Directory "d:/websrc/example/www/">
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
# assuming yoursubnet is 192.168.0.?
# allow any ip on your WIFI access
Require ip 192.168.0
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Restart Apache from wampmanager after completing these edits.
Now you test this from the WAMPServer PC by using the ServerName i.e example.dev and from the phone using the ip of the PC running WAMPServer with the port number i.e. 192.168.0.10:8000
Apache will find the correct code to serve from both requests.
If you want more than one Virtual Host to be accessible from your phone you just duplicate this idea and change the port number for each new site, lets say you would use 8001,8002,8003 etc. For as many sites as you want to access.
You may also have to amend your firewall to allow access on http on port 8000, or whatever port you pick to use
I am running WAMP and using CodeIgniter for my project and have this on my vhost:
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin admin#yahoo.com
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/myproject/assets"
ServerName myproject.dev
ErrorLog "logs/myproject.dev-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/myproject.dev-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
Now to access this, I added this line on windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1 myproject.dev
Now for the other computers on the network, I have to edit the hosts file of EACH computer so they can access my virtual host. (yes of course I have to use my ip address instead 127.0.0.1 for other computers)
Now my question is, is there a way that they can access my project by only using my ip address on the browser's address bar like this?
http://192.168.1.112/myproject
I mean there are 100 users that will access that project and it's a big hassle if I edit each one's hosts file. Like adding something to .htaccess, or to the routes of CodeIgniter, or to the <virtualHost>
Note:
By the way, when we are still NOT using Codeigniter (plain PHP codes), this is not a problem. But because of Codeigniter's structure, we can't do it anymore.
Can you just add a DNS entry that points to your IP address and set that as the ServerName that apache responds to?
Alternatively you can do virtual hosting based on IP address and port as described here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/vhosts/ip-based.html
In summary you should be able to do:
<VirtualHost 192.168.1.112:8000>
ServerAdmin admin#yahoo.com
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/myproject/assets"
ServerName myproject.dev
ErrorLog "logs/myproject.dev-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/myproject.dev-access.log" common
</VirtualHost>
And have people access it via
http://192.168.1.112:8000/myproject
But, don't forget to add a Listen directive for port 8000 (or whatever you choose) if you use IP-based Virtual hosts
It might work of you create an alias called /myproject in wamp server and point the document root to 'C:/wamp/www/myproject/assets'
Make sure you have set your wamp server status to online by selecting 'Put Online' in wamp server system tray icon.
I have a Virtual Host in my machine with this configuration:
<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
ServerName codigos
DocumentRoot /home/code/codigos/app/webroot
SetEnv APPLICATION_ENV "development"
<Directory /home/code/codigos/app/webroot >
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
Ok, that works nice when I type this in my browser: codigos/some_path and 127.0.0.1/some_path
But now I'm working with PayPal and I need a url for the IPN. I know that I cant' put localhost in the url, so I suppose that it would be something like this: my.dynamic.ip/some_path/ipn.php ... and thats my problem, I don't know how to configure my apache file to achieve this.
Thanks.
Register at http://www.noip.com/ (or any other dynamic dns site)
Set up their software so that you was possible to ping blabla.noip.com host (or whatever host you've got after the registration and setting up process) and see it resolves to your ip (you can check it with my ip in google)
After that put the given hostname blabla.noip.com to the ServerName or (better) ServerAlias directive
After that you'll be able to access to your virtual host from outside (assuming your firewall doesn't reject connections and you have white IP address)
Virtual host not working in the NETWORK
I just followed this site tutorial,
Virtual host steps
The tutorial was excellent but when I try this alias URL in another system, its not working. I have checked in my other system, I am able to see my application, after I did these changes I am not able to see my application on the other system.
I have even changed Allow from 127.0.0 to all but that is not working.
My C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
This what I added
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#developertalk
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/developertalk"
ServerName developertalk
ServerAlias www.developertalk
ErrorLog "logs/developertalk-error.log"
CustomLog "logs/developertalk-access.log" common
<directory "C:/wamp/www/developertalk">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from all
</directory>
</VirtualHost>
When hitting URL in another system, getting following error:
Server not found
In my local host i am having 3 web application.
Due to above changes my local host other sites not working.
How to make it work other sites.
You need to use local DNS to say every PC in Your network, that You have on Your PC host 'myApp', also You can add to every client's hosts file something like myapp 192.168.1.2 where 192.168.1.2 Your static IP in network
For every computer you want to have access to http://developertalk, you need to edit the Hosts file in each one.
Located at (xp/win7): C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\
You need to add only 1 line on every computer.
(your static internal ip) www.developertalk
example:
192.168.1.71 www.developertalk
you can check your internal ip address on your windows by opening cmd and typing ipconfig.
Look for the IPv4 address under the Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection column.
If you don't request or assign a static internal IP to your computer, others will not be able to connect to http://developertalk which was forwarded to your old internal IP.
Egor Sazanovich has actually answered your question and provided you with extra information, so accept his instead of this one, if this helped at all.