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.
Related
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.
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 setup my wordpress site on my computer by using wamp server and every thing is ok ,
i can access my site via lan or wan by using the ip address like :
192.168.1.11/site
my host file like this :
127.0.0.1 demo.it
127.0.0.1 www.demo.it
192.168.1.11 demo.it
my vhost file like this
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName demo.it
DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/point"
<Directory "c:/wamp/www/point">
Options +Indexes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require all granted
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
i can browse the site on my computer by using the domain (demo.it) , but it's not working from other machine
help please
sorry for my english :)
You will have to enter the IP address of your local machine and the domain name as you have in your hosts file into any machine that wants to access your local wamp server.
192.168.1.11 demo.it
Of course, first the other machines must be able to reach 192.168.1.11, but as you said, they can access your site from http://192.168.1.11/site so that must mean they can reach you.
Just check via ping to be double sure. Open Command prompt and check output of
ping 192.168.1.11
If you can, there might be a way to configure your router or switch such that specific domain requests are routed to your IP address, but I don't know how to do it.
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.
How can i access my local wamp server on another computer
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
i use this code in http.config file but not work
You could simply use the Put Online option of your WAMP Server and you can use this current system IP address and to directly access from the other computer.
Do this on system tray
Then, you could find your IP address using typing ipconfig or whatismyip.com website and then access it on another system.
As you are able to access it from the local computer that run the server by http://localhost you have two options to access it from your local area network LAN:
Using the local IP of the computer for example: http://192.168.1.20
Using the computer name for example: http://computer1/
To know your current IP:
Start -> in search field write cmd and hit enter to open the command line -> in the command line write: ipconfig you will get something like that:
Your computer IP address is the value of IPv4 Address.
To know your computer name just right click on the computer icon in the start menu then choose properties to get this screen shot:
However, for computer name method you have to be sure that every computer in your LAN has a unique name.
Update
There are some routers firmware supports local DNS on the router, so you have not need to edit the hosts files for every machine in the network. For example that I already have, dd-wrt firmware on Linksys WRT54G:
Mine wasn't working before when I tried using my computer's IP in the URL.
I found the reason to be the line in httpd.conf:
ServerName localhost:80
which I updated to be
ServerName {My comp's IP}:80
Step 1 : Press window button + R at the same time which opens the run tool of Windows.
Step 2 : Write CMD, then press 'Enter' button. This operation opens CMD terminal.
Step 3 : Then write 'ipconfig' command
Step 4 : Then note your ipv4 Address : 192.168.x.x (From Wireless Lan Adapter Wi-Fi Header) (This Ip address is needed by other computers in the place of localhost in URL)
Step 5 : Go to phpmyadmin.conf file of hosting system(Where wamp is installed...File path -> C:\wamp\alias\phpmyadmin.conf)
Step 6 : Replace this statement
<ifDefine APACHE24>
Require local
</ifDefine>
<ifDefine !APACHE24>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from localhost ::1 127.0.0.1
</ifDefine>
with
Require local
Require ip 192.168.0
Note : (If your Ip is something like 192.147.x.x) then you write 'Require 192.147.0' instead of 'require 192.168.0')
Step 7 : Restart your Wamp server
Step 8 : Enter the link 192.x.x.x/phpmyadmin in the url bar of your own system from which you want to access the hosting wamp server
Step 9 : End.
If you just need to access the wamp server from another LAN PC, as some of the answers have pointed out, you can use the LAN IP or Computer-Name in the URL, as long as VirtualHost's ServerName or ServerAlias directive contains that LAN IP or Computer-Name (so Apache can return the correct website).
But if you need to use a domain-name, you'll have to edit every PC's Hosts file and update it with the correct domain-name to LAN IP address resolve (and make sure that LAN IP is assigned each time to the correct device by the Router).
Though there are much better solutions that will work for all devices (including Mac, Linux, mobile devices such as iPhones, Android phones, etc) if you have a WiFi Router that can either be flashed with one of the open firmwares or is already capable of DNS Masquerading as outlined here: Accessing Websites on a Local Network (LAN) Web Server. "DNS Masquerading" (in this context) is basically using the WiFi Router's own "Hosts file" to do the domain-name to LAN IP resolve.
Hope this helps
I couldn't connect event after doing all the above-mentioned steps. Then I uninstalled my current wampserver (3.0 version) and installed 2.5 version of wampserver. And it worked perfectly. You just need to click on 'Put Online' and you are done. Others can access your server by putting your ip address in the URL instead of localhost.
stop the wamp server and open C:\wamp64\bin\apache\apache2.4.41\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf
replace
# Virtual Hosts
#
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName localhost
ServerAlias localhost
DocumentRoot "${INSTALL_DIR}/www"
<Directory "${INSTALL_DIR}/www/">
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
add
Require all granted
above the Directory closing tag.
Then turn off the windows firewall for [domain, private,
public] networks in my case only [private network] works
Re-Start wamp server