I want to make a php application and it must host in a computer and open from many branches of my schools using web.
I installed XAMPP on my pc server, and if i try to open the application in the same LAN network it works, but if i change the network it is not working.
The browser say that ip 192.168.1.22 take large time to load and not open.
how can i config that problem please
You need to set up a static IP on your machine, then set your router to forward ports so that all requests that come to your router on a particular port would be forwarded to your machine. This should do for testing purposes, but if you want to host a website for example you will need to get a permanent static IP for your router, this usually costs money from your ISP(internet service provider).
192.168.1.22 is your local IP address, you cannot access it from a different network. You can get your external IP address for example using whatismyip.com. Also, if you are behind a router, you have to open and forward the port which is used by your web server to your machine.
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I'm using XAMPP server and I have my files in htdocs folder of XAMPP.
I had connected to my laptop using my mobile hotspot.
Can I access my files in XAMPP folder from another system which is not in same network i.e., can I access the files present in XAMPP folder from another another computer via internet
without router only by mobile hotspot?
Yes, it's possible to access the web server from an external network, depending on your current network configuration.
There are two simple solutions I think would suit you.
Configure your firewall if needed, enable port forwarding in your router settings to forward port 80 to the internal IP of the machine running your XAMPP-server.
If you're on a network in which you can't configure, I recommend checking out ngrok.com, which is a service where you can setup a public URL for your XAMPP-server. Works from any type of network, where you have internet-access, of course.
Note, alternative 2 is good for exposing a development-server, nothing I'd recommend for running a site in production.
Most network providers don't allow accessing the termials in the network.
If your provider does portforwarding and entering the public(!) IP of your hotspot should bei enough.
So this is the situation: I have a bunch of Arduinos and Raspberry Pis along with an ubuntu server on a local network. The arduinos and pis communicate with that local server routinely using PHP GET & POST requests.
Now this local server sometimes "fetches" something from a remote server in the cloud (also using PHP GETs) to respond to local requests from Arduinos and Pis.
Now here's the problem: The local server has no issues communicating with the remote server by GETs, but what if I want the server in the cloud to send a GET to the local server?
This part is kind of confusing to me as the local server is on a regular LAN and connects to the internet via a router through a local commercial ISP that issues dynamic IPs.
How can I send PHP GETs from an "online" server to a local server?
Please note that both servers are running Apache/PHP/MySQL on Ubuntu 14.04.
Thanks a ton in advance!
You will need two steps to accomplish that.
step 1 - make router forward external requests to LAN server
step 2 - make external server know the current dynamic WAN ip
step 1:
The router has to be configured to forward WAN requests to your LAN server. Assuming you use a normal home router, you typically point your browser towards the router ip and login on the router. Now you have to find where to configure forwarding (unfortunately naming of this feature varies from router to router).
While you typically can define an "exposed host" where just all external requests go to, you are better of in terms of security if you just forward specific ports to your server. As you are going to use HTTP protocol, the standard ports here would be 80 (http) and 443 (https). So assuming you use HTTPS with default port, a typical forwarding would be:
router WAN ip, port 443 --> server LAN ip, port 443
This forwards any external request to the router on port 443 to your internal server on port 443.
Now your server should be able to receive those requests, but you still would need to know your router's current dynamic WAN ip.
step 2:
As your router's WAN ip changes from time to time, you need to somehow announce that ip to your external server.
One easy way of doing is by using an external service which will provide you with a URL, which will resolve to your current ip. This is often referred to as DDNS or dynamic DNS. One quite well known DDNS provider is https://dyn.com/dns/ - but there are plenty others, and you will even find free ones. After registering with such a provider you will be given a URL which your external server can use instead of the ip.
Now you still would have to let know the DDNS provider you current dynamic WAN ip. Most easy way to do this again involves your router. Check its config for DDNS settings, typically routers do support this feature, often there are even some specific providers pre-configured. Setup your router with the credentials you got from the DDNS provider.
Now everything is set. You should be able to send requests to your internal server by using the URL you got from your DDNS provider, while your router both forwards such requests and notifies the DDNS provider about any ip changes.
A word of warning - you just exposed your local server to the internet. So you will have to treat it like any server on the internet to keep it safe, including careful configuration, installing security updates and so on.
You have to open a port on your router, and specify where the router should lead the request to. Lets assume your external ip is: 80.82.71.24, going to this ip address (fx: http://80.82.71.24) will lead to your router. Then the router decides what to do with this request, normally the request would timeoutted / refused. But on the router, if you specify that this certain request (could be: tcp/udp) (to a specified port) should point to a certain internal ip (the local server ip), then it's possible to do what you want.
But to do this, you need to read up on your router - first of all, see if you can login into it. Could you specify what router you use and if your internet connection is yours or shared (fx. campus, school, etc)?
By the way, it would not be a good idea to open up the port for the whole world, so maybe you should consider to only allow your cloud server ip to gain access to that specific port.
I'm new to PHP, so I don't know how to explain it. I'm running WAMP on my computer and I would like to be able to access my localhost from another computer.
Is it possible? How can I do this?
This is provided that all machines are on the same network and that you have
administrative privileges on the machines (you'll have to edit some system files).
You can easily do this but it would have to be a manual process.
You have to create an entry in the hosts file -
On Windows machines is is located in %SystemRoot%\system32\drivers\etc\hosts
On UNIX like systems it is located in /etc/hosts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)#Location_in_the_file_system.
See the link for details on where your hosts file is located. It depends on the operating system.
The following will have to be done on every machine that you would like
to have access to your localhost machine.
Add a line at the very end of your hosts file similar to this :
10.0.0.42 prathyash-localhost.com
The IP address (in the example above it is 10.0.0.42) is the address of your localhost; Your computers IP address. The domain name (prathyash-localhost.com) is what is mapped
to the IP address.
After you save that file, whenever that computer points to prathyash-localhost.com, it will be directed to your IP address. Firewalls are still a barrier - however the other answers covered that so I will not repeat their contribution.
Depending on your situation, manually editing tens maybe hundreds of files might not be feasible. In this case, you might want to consult the networks administrator (he probably hangs around on Server Fault), and he may have a better solution for you.
This problem can be fixed as follows.This is for one using a wamp server or a similar local server.
first ensure that you have modified the httpd.conf.scroll until you find this line:
# onlineoffline tag - don't remove
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
If you have a smartphone turn on your wifi hotspot to connect with your pc and the one you want to connect with.
Open the command prompt in your pc and type ipconfig. Note down the ip4 address of your pc (eg. 192.168.43.47) under wireless LAN adapter Wireless Network Connection.
In the pc you want to connect to set "Obtain IP address automatically".
Before you connect ensure your wamp server is online.
Open the browser of the client pc and type the IP address noted down earlier.This should work just fine. In some cases you may be required to switch off your antivirus.
Yes if they are on the same network, simply target the computer's IP address and ensure anything on either computer that would block access to port 80 (firewalls) is off
#Shaun Hare explained it pretty good, however, if those computers are not in the same network (my case, when remote presentation is needed) you would also need to set port forwarding on your router and remote side would need router's public IP address.
Basically, remote side would enter http://123.123.123.123/index.php in their browser and router would point that request (via port forwarding) to WAMP server installed at 192.168.10.10 (for instance).
You can't. Bind the appropriate daemon to 0.0.0.0/:: or an external interface and use the machine's IP address.
If it's for testing you could use a service like http://localhost.run/ or https://ngrok.com/ to temporarily put localhost on the internet.
Post forward port 80 on your router configuration. Start wamp. Now when your IP address is accessed from any external machine it will jump to the "www" folder and show the index file. If you are not able to do so, it means your firewall is blocking the request: Disable it and try again.
You could just tinker around the firewall. I found that the inbound and outbound rules were blocking all public network traffic (that is, all traffic to my router which is seen as public, even though it has a password) and proceeded to check the box to allow traffic on a public network (both inbound and outbound) for all the rules bearing the Apache name. Also, I did turn on the mySQL server, but that shouldn't do anything at all in this matter (though life has surprised me like this before where something insignificant turned out to be quite significant in the end, so I would do this as a last resort, but unlikely). Also, I think this should work at least over the same WiFi network (and I know that's a part of LAN, but just to clear up any ambiguity) since I only tested with my Android phone (oh how I wish I had a Windows Phone). Hope this of any use to anyone!
i have php files on my computer and i can very well access those from IIS using eighter localhost or loop-back address . But now if i want to access the same file of php from another computer not in the LAN but in a different computer on the internet what should i do? i was thinking of IP address(static) as an option but then i was not successful in finding a way to do the same .
thanks in advance....
I don't completely understand your question. Is your problem
1) You don't have a static IP? Then:
There are services as "No-IP" where you can create redirects. At their site, you can create a free domain name (which is a static IP as well) such as yourdomain.no-ip.com. Then on your server computer you can run their tool. This tool updates the IP all the time so it will be always correct.
2) You don't know how to access the server from out of the LAN because the IP of your network is the same for all computers (if you're looking from the outside)? Then:
Check your router settings, normally at: http://192.168.1.1. There you will be able to define rules how to redirect requests from the outside. For http, you should redirect requests to port 80 to the IP of the server computer (note: you can even use an other port on the server computer)!
So I'm using this website:
http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_debian_lamp_server
to setup LAMP on my Ubuntu Virtual Machine.
Here is my question though,
This will enable me to program and test through localhost. How can I set this up so anyone on the web can access my .php pages from any Internet capable device, and they will still interact with my local database, etc?
If you open port 80 in your firewall to your local machine, it should be available to the outside world via your ip address. You will need to check your router settings to figure out how to do this, but usually it's called port forwarding.
You could then use a free service like dyndns to give yourself a domain name that you can then type into your browser such as
myserver.dyndns.org
You have a couple of options...
1) Find a site that hosts LAMP and put you site up there. Many of them allow you to register a domain name and they manage the machine.
2) Do what Ben Rowe suggested, use a DNS forwarding service (Some are free, some not). Host the site on your own machine, some ISPs do not allow you to use port 80, you might need to use another port.