Localhost on the web?

[DeanWhitehouse]

How do i make a WAMP server run as a web one?

Is it already, i dunno.

 

Thanks,

Blade

P.s soz if i posted in the wrong place

[MatthewJ]

Um, is that question supposed to make sense?

 

[DeanWhitehouse]

Yes, and it would if you knew the answer 

[php.ajax.coder]

Try using a tool like noIP

[MatthewJ]

Actually... I know the answer if the question is what I think it is... it is just rather poorly formed and does not directly express what you are asking

 

For instance... "How do I expose my local web server to the public"

 

Your question effectively asks "How do I make a web server a web server"

[Zane]

once WAMP is setup it is ready for the web

 

If you have broadband, then you have ISP/hosting (now if they allow you to host a server is another story)

then you need to access your router control panel and configure port forwarding for port 80 to go to your computer

[DeanWhitehouse]

Yer, i have accessed my router and (i think) made it port forward, as it only has certain modes and HTTP WebServer is one, and to test i put in my ip and it came up with 404, but before i turned this mode on it came up with my router cp

 

I tried a few things like adding

http://ipnumber/www/test/test.php

or

http://ipnumber/test/test.php

 

and all were 404 errors

btw i am using a bt home hub

 

Any ideas?

[DeanWhitehouse]

And

http://ipnumber/test.php

 

[Stooney]

Have you tried just http://ip? (ex http://66.97.171.5)

If that 404's then either your server isn't working or you did not properly forward port 80.

 

If you can use your local ip just fine then it's a fowarding issue.  (ex http://192.168.1.2)

[DeanWhitehouse]

Yes i have tried just http://ip

and my local one

they both give page load error

Failed to Connect  

The connection was refused when attempting to contact 192.168.1.2.

Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection.

Failed to Connect

The connection was refused when attempting to contact 86.143.97.45.

Though the site seems valid, the browser was unable to establish a connection.

[Stooney]

You used YOUR local ip right?  The one I gave was just an example.  (You could also use 127.0.0.1).  If it still doesn't work then there's something wrong with your server I would guess.

[DeanWhitehouse]

Using that IP takes me to the WAMP server page

[play_]

left-click the WAMP icon, select 'put online'.

 

Then you have to open port 80 on your router. This is usually under 'Virtual Server'.

 

that should be it

[Stooney]

Here's how to port forward on your router:

http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/homehubfaq.html#port

 

[Stooney]

Also, if you don't know your local ip:

Go to start->run.

Type 'cmd' and press enter.

type 'ipconfig' and press enter.

 

Your local IP will be the ip after Ipv4 Address.

[DeanWhitehouse]

I tried that tutorial on the portwarding and it didn't work, at all, i have put it in HTTP(Web Server) mode,and that redirects the request for the ip to somewhere.

 

 

[MatthewJ]

It sounds like the router is not configured properly to pass the request.

 

All port forwarding is doing is listening for any requests to come into the router looking for a web page, then it "forwards" the request to the proper machine.

 

So, if my external ip(given by the isp) is 12.216.200.100, that is the IP address of the router and the one you would need to use to connect to the server. You can find your external IP within your router configuration settings, not with ipconfig (ipconfig will only show you the internal IP... probably something like 192.168.0.100) The internal IP is where you want to forward the request.

 

So, long story short... you are saying to the router "When someone tries to access the web server at IP 12.216.200.100, send the request to the web server on 192.168.0.100"

 

You just need to figure out which point in there the request is getting lost.

 

As a side note, you may also want to confirm that Windows firewall is not blocking the request as that has been known to happen

 

Good luck!

[DeanWhitehouse]

It's working now, but a problem. When i type in my IP or give it out to people to type in, it takes them to my WAMP server config page, and this means they can access anything on there e.g. phpMyAdmin.

 

How do i stop this , either password protect the pages, or forward the ip requests to my homepage?

[Zane]

you should have an /alias directory

with a file called phpmyadmin.conf in it already

 

if you don't then make one and put this in it

Alias /phpmyadmin "c:/wamp/apps/phpmyadmin2.11.6/" 

# to give access to phpmyadmin from outside 
# replace the lines
#
#        Order Deny,Allow
#	Deny from all
#	Allow from 127.0.0.1
#
# by
#
#        Order Allow,Deny 
#   Allow from all
#


    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride all
        Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1

Make all the necessary changes first of course