Home Web Server Installation

  • Hi everyone, I have installed WordPress and am using XAMPP on my Windows XP machine to do php and apache etc.

    I can access the wordpress site fine on the machine itself using https://localhost/wordpress.

    However, I cannot access the site externally, if enter my external IP and try and access over the web I get the XAMPP page, if I try the externalIP/worpress I get a 404 error. This is true over my home network too.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. I really want to host my site on my own server.

    Thanks in advance,

    Si

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  • I am having the reverse issue, I can host websites off my computer but can’t get wordpress to work.

    I don’t know exactly what your setup is, but if you have a router you need to first setup a static IP address on your computer, and then make your router forward port 80 to your static IP address. There are guides on the internet if you search in google how to do that stuff.

    localhost is the “home address” of every machine. But only from that machine, so to access WordPress from anywhere other than the machine it is installed on, you will have to have a web address that is accessible from the ‘net.

    //https://localhost/wordpress

    -can only be accessed from the box it’s on.

    //https://www.mydomainname.com/wordpress -or-

    //https://my_static_ip_address/wordpress

    -accessible to the world if you set up your routing hardware correctly.

    localhost explained

    XAMPP how to’s

    Thread Starter bigsihawk

    (@bigsihawk)

    Clayton,

    Thanks for the help, I understand that locahost will only work on that machine.

    I have set up port forwarding etc, and you can access my webserver at https://87.81.191.51/ my problem is that this automatically starts up the XAMPP homepage, not wordpress. I assume that there is a way to configure Apache to point to wordpress instead of the XAMPP homepage.

    Cheers,

    Si

    It believe it is indeed an httpd.conf configuration issue. Pop open the httpd.conf and have a read, but I don’t recommend using XAMPP for anything other than a local development arrangement (I don’t recommend allowing access outside of your own LAN).

    Best wishes.

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