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We have just set up a small workgroup of 6 PC's running xp pro, a D-link hub and WAMP server running on an xp home machine. All PC's and server are members of the same workgroup and file sharing, rdp, etc are working fine.

Is there a way to access the WAMP page by connecting directly to the server(xp home)?? We dont have internet access. RDP is not an option (xp home server doesnt allow and xp pro only allows 1 connection, we need 6).
I tried adding the workgroup name to the htaccess file but that didnt work (as you would a domain).

The idea is to use it like an intranet site. I'm a novice at this...so any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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Well, you are going to need more than just a virtual website. You may need to have DNS entries set in your DNS Server (which I suspect you do not have), or point to Instranet Server via IP or set a HOST record entry in every computer which in essence will direct the PCs to the desired SERVER even if using a FQDN (fully qualified domain name).

Of course, you will need to set the virtual domain name if you choose to use a directory other than the default.

In your XP PCs, go to: C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc and edit the file named hosts (use notepad). Say that the Intranet Server PC has IP 192.168.10.254, you will then add an entry like so:

192.168.10.254 myintranet.com

Save the file, open your browser, type myintranet.com in the URL and BANG! you got NET.

If it does not come up, reboot PC to reload hosts file and try the URL again.

Hope this helps!


WARNING: Messing with content of above mentioned directories may cause some harm to your computer. If you stick to editing the one file I mentioned, you should be OK. It is always a good idea to keep an original copy ... just because you never know!

Southbeach.

Thank you! I will be doing this today .... I'll post and let you all know if this works.
I appreciate all ofyour help!

I tried all suggestions and was successful... it connects. the only issue I have now is that on the XP PC's, it gives me an error 403 saying the website wont show because it requires a login.

Any idea how to fix this??

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it requires a login.

Correct me if I'm wrong, I guess it's router's login and did you check Setup LAN & Worldwide Access guide as mentioned in Setup Virtual Hosts guide?

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we dont have a router.....i'll check it out. just a wired hub/switch that is plug and play...no passwords setup.

No router? How did you forward your port(s)?

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In the firewall for each PC and "server" I added a port HTTP, 80, TCP.
This is the switch we have:

[www.dlink.com]

Sounds like I am missing something.....

He he... he he... ;-)

A switch can NOT forward a port, and that's reason why they name the other device "router" because it routes the paths for your internet transactions. W/o router, when a internet transaction goes to your computers, it does NOT know which computer is the server and which is not, and just simply return message "server not found"

I try to make it very simple, and not in any technical term and hope this makes sense to you

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So this is definitely not going to work without a router then?

Even if we are not using the internet to access... just intranet?
Sorry... I am definitely knew to this!

W/o internet, hum, very good question and you're lucky that I'm next to the server and the result is it's working w/ wired but not wireless

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Ok, good to know. I really appreciate all of your help.

You're welcome anytime ;-)

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So, I've got some things up and running:

vhosts [domain], [sub1], http:/sub2...etc can all be seen by my client XP computers.

I just cant get access to [localhost]. Any idea what gives?????

in the config file i have it set to "Allow from All" under "controls who can get stuf from this server".

I followed the post used my southbeach to create the intranet.
I followed the JLBN guide for virtual hosts and install and setup LAN & Worldwide access guide for wamp.

I am missing a crucial piece somewhere....

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I followed the post used my southbeach to create the intranet.

Not quite sure what did you mean?

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I did the following:


southbeach Wrote:
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> Well, you are going to need more than just a
> virtual website. You may need to have DNS entries
> set in your DNS Server (which I suspect you do not
> have), or point to Instranet Server via IP or set
> a HOST record entry in every computer which in
> essence will direct the PCs to the desired SERVER
> even if using a FQDN (fully qualified domain
> name).
>
> Of course, you will need to set the virtual domain
> name if you choose to use a directory other than
> the default.
>
> In your XP PCs, go to:
> C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc and edit the file
> named hosts (use notepad). Say that the Intranet
> Server PC has IP 192.168.10.254, you will then add
> an entry like so:
>
> 192.168.10.254 myintranet.com
>
> Save the file, open your browser, type
> myintranet.com in the URL and BANG! you got NET.
>
> If it does not come up, reboot PC to reload hosts
> file and try the URL again.
>
> Hope this helps!
>
>
> WARNING: Messing with content of above mentioned
> directories may cause some harm to your computer.
> If you stick to editing the one file I mentioned,
> you should be OK. It is always a good idea to
> keep an original copy ... just because you never
> know!
>
> Southbeach.




For each vhosts entry it has the IP, then the vhost name.
192.168.10.254 localhost
192.168.10.254 domain
192.168.10.254 sub1


On each client, when I type in [domain], it pulls up the correct folder or index (depending on what is actually in those folders of course...)

First, what southbeach wrote is already in my VH guide
Second, host on wamp computer and others are not the same, check my guide again to have the proper settings

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