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Good day, I have Windows Server 2012 R2, I installed WAMP Server 3, on wamp settings I enabled the following
- Virtual host sub-menu
- Menu item: Online/Offline

when installing wamp a "my-site" folder was created, i created a index.html file in there with a <h1>

then i created a vhost using the GUI (localhost)

and the httpd-vhosts.conf looks like this

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName my-site.dev
DocumentRoot c:/wamp64/www/my-site
<Directory "c:/wamp64/www/my-site/">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Require local
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>

after this, i clicked on Put Online and disabled my windows firewall

from a different computer on the network i am trying to access to (http://29.8.14.2/my-site.dev) (IP of the windows server / folder) but i get the message


"Forbidden
You don't have permission to access /my-site.dev on this server.
Apache/2.4.17 (Win64) PHP/5.6.16 Server at 29.8.14.2 Port 80"

could you please let me know what I am doing incorrectly?

thank you.

The "Put Online/Offline" menu is redundant when using Virtual Hosts. Each Virtual Host is protected by its own security

In your example :-

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName my-site.dev
    DocumentRoot c:/wamp64/www/my-site
    <Directory "c:/wamp64/www/my-site/">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        Require local                                                       <- THIS LINE
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

So if you want this Virtual Host to be visible to another PC in your network

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName my-site.dev
    DocumentRoot c:/wamp64/www/my-site
    <Directory "c:/wamp64/www/my-site/">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        
        Require local
        Require 192.168.1                                        <- To allow a whole subnet access
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

or to the universe

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName my-site.dev
    DocumentRoot c:/wamp64/www/my-site
    <Directory "c:/wamp64/www/my-site/">
        Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
        AllowOverride All
        
        Require all granted                        <-- Allow access from anywhere

    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 06/28/2016 05:35PM by RiggsFolly.

Thank you very much for your response,

I tried using the first configuration (subnet access), then i restarted the services but apache does not start

then i tried using the second opcion (all granted), and when restarting the services both of them (apache and mysql) started correctly but i am still not able to connect from a different PC.

I tried using both scenarios (Server Online and Offline)

is there something im missing here?

thank you

Hi,

You try to access from other PC on the network by:
> 'http://29.8.14.2/my-site.dev'
29.8.14.2 is a public IP (WAN ip). You cannot connect from local network devices on your local server with the use of a public IP ; this is called "local loopback" and can only be done with very specific drivers.

You must use the private IP (LAN ip) of the local server.

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Thank you for your answer, No, it is a LAN Ip, we've changed the ip structure to 29.8.14, so the server (windows 2012) is 29.8.14.2, gateway 29.8.14.1 and my pc ip is 29.8.14.100

Hi,

Try:
Rightclick wampmanager tray icon -> Tools -> Restant DNS

This do also ipconfig /flushdns

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No that is a publicly addressable ip address.

There are 3 address ranges provided for Private ip address ranges for Small, Medium and Large Internal networks and they are

RFC1918 name    IP address range	           number of addresses
24-bit block	10.0.0.0 - 10.255.255.255	   16,777,216
20-bit block	172.16.0.0 - 172.31.255.255	   1,048,576
16-bit block	192.168.0.0 - 192.168.255.255      65,536

I am not a ip guru but if you use public ip addresses there is the likelyhood of great confusion

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I just did, still not working.

RiggsFolly, so you are suggesting that if I change the IP address to for example 192.168.X.X there is a chance it should work?

Yes that is what I am suggesting.

Can I ask why you picked the ip addresses you decided to use?

And just to check, we are talking about a home or office lan here are we not?

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Well, it is kind of silly but the owner wanted to show even on the ip the date when the company was founded, and yes, it is an office lan.

well, in order to check if that is the issue i would have to make some changes on the Server and router. (I could do that later today) but is there any other possibility we may consider before that?

Hhahah,

Yup Silly. You have to tell clients when things are a bad idea.

All those IP Addresses are already owned and paid for.

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I just changed the IP addresses to 192.168.0.2 (server) and i am trying to connect from a differente PC using 192.168.0.10

I'm using [192.168.0.2] but still not working.

is there something else I could do?

Note: i still get the error message

"Forbidden

You don't have permission to access /my-site.dev on this server.
Apache/2.4.17 (Win64) PHP/5.6.16 Server at 192.168.0.2 Port 80"

thank you in advance.

I have just added the "my-site.dev" to my hosts file, something like.

192.168.0.2 my-site.dev

but i dont think is a good idea to edit every computer's hosts file.

is there something I could do over my server on DNS?

thank you.

Yes,

If you have a DNS Server, then register your site with that.

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I would be interested to know if you got it all working, and what you did to get it all working.

Thanks

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Yes it finally worked, it seems the only remaining configuration (besides all the above) was to add the IP and Domain to the Hosts file

example

109.108.0.2 my-site.dev (please note I left the new IP structure hehe).


Still pending to try by adding the DNS Record to my DNS server and test if that works

>(please note I left the new IP structure hehe).Do you mean you did not chnage to a sensible Private IP range?

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That's correct, i told to the owner, no DOB for the company allowed in LAN IP Addresses hahaha

Ok thanks for clearing that up.

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