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My Win7 computer has a computer name of "hostname", say.

How do I make it so that other people in the LAN/WAN can go to [hostname] ?

I have right-clicked on WAMPserver system tray icon, and selected "Put online".

Can you clarify please, do you want people to use your website in a intranet way i.e. only people inside your network, or do you want people on the internet to be able to use it? Or is it both?

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Like an Intranet.

Probably the easiest way is to use your PC's IPAddress.

Of course you need to make sure that your PC has a static ip, so it does not change when you reboot.

People can then access your site using `192.168.0.10` for example if that was your static ip address.


Of course the best solution would be if your site runs a DNS server somewhere.
Then you could get the admins to create a nice domain name like `sitename.intranet` for your site and point that domain name to your PC's IpAddress.

Then of course you would need to change the Apache configuration a little to allow people in.
This change depends on how and where you have created your site, so I cannot help with that unless I know a little more about your environment.

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If I use my computer's IP address in the browser, I receive:

403 Forbidden

You don't have permission to access / on this server.

So now you have to tell Apache that it is allowed to accept connections from those locations.

By default WAMP sets Apache to only allow connections from the PC running WAMPServer(Apache). So you dont get hacked before you even get started.


Edit your httpd.conf file ( using the menu links )

Look for this section

<Directory "d:/wamp/www/">

   ...

   ...

</Directory

You should see something like this inside the <Directory...> scope

If you are running WAMP 2.2.x

#   onlineoffline tag - don't remove
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1

Change it to include the whole subnet of your internal network like so :

#   onlineoffline tag - don't remove
    Order Deny,Allow
    Deny from all
    Allow from 127.0.0.1 localhost ::1
    Allow from 192.168.0

You will have to work out what subnet you are on and use just the first 3 quartiles to allow everyone.
Or you can be specific and us

    Allow from 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.101 ... etc

If you are running WAMP 2.4.x

#   onlineoffline tag - don't remove
    Order Deny,Allow
     Deny from all
     Allow from 127.0.0.1
     Allow from ::1
     Allow from localhost

Change it to something like this. This also uses the correct Apache 2.4.x syntax for security

#   onlineoffline tag - don't remove
    Require local
    Require ip 192.168.0

Or being specific

#   onlineoffline tag - don't remove
    Require local
    Require ip 192.168.0.100 192.168.0.101

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That worked. Thanks for your help.