WampServer

I have set Wamp up on my computer..
Everything is working great.
I need others to view and test the site before I put it online.
Is there a way to set WAMP up so that others on my local server can view and test the site?

u need to have a dedicated ip and set wamp serv to online mode
to know your ip [www.whatsmyip.org]

I am a still learning and don't understand how to set that up.
Or if that's what I want set up.
I don't always use "correct" terminology....
So I will try to explain the best way I can...
I don't want the website "online" so that everybody and their mother can look at the site.
I just want others in my office to view the site from their computer.
They all have a version on our server now that they can view...
But now they need to view the version that has the dynamic elements that I set up using PHP and MySQL via WAMP.

You need to setup Access, DNS, and VH; Access for permission to connect to your Wamp PC, DNS to tie domain(s) to your Wamp PC, and VH to host multiple domains/websites and even you have only 1 domain/IP, you should use VH to set it up w/ the site you want to show up first on top and localhost on bottom and others in middle if having more than 1 site; if dont have real domain, just skip DNS guide

To setup Access, follow this
[blog.jlbn.net]

To setup VH, follow this
[blog.jlbn.net]

To setup DNS, follow this
[blog.jlbn.net]

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To allow access only for network computers u need to do this:
Put wampserver in offline mode.
Open C:\wamp\bin\apache\Apache2.2.11\conf\httpd.conf and search for the line "Allow from 127.0.0.1"
Run this command in command prompt( start>>run write cmd, press enter), "ipconfig", here u can see your local area network IP, it's the one like 192.168.....
In httpd.conf after the "Allow from 127.0.0.1" line add a new line "Allow from 192.168.." (your LAN IP)
Restart Apache server, wamp server .. apache >> service >> restart service

And that's it.
What you've done is that u allow access to server only on localhost and LAN

Remember that if you put wampserver back online that line won't disappear so on online mode u will actually have access only on LAN, so delete the line if you want access from everywhere

Thank you for the info...
I have since figured out that I really need to take the next step and put the site online.
I need to set up forms that send data to email and the easiest way to do that is have your site online.
That being said how do I go about puting it online?
I know how to put static sites online...
With the PHP/MySQL involved I don't have a clue.
What do I need to do differently?

You need to setup Access, DNS, and VH; Access for permission to connect to your Wamp PC, DNS to tie domain(s) to your Wamp PC, and VH to host multiple Domains/Websites/IP's and even you have only 1 Domain/IP, you should use VH to set it up w/ the site you want to show up first on top and localhost on bottom and others in middle if having more than 1 site; also, VH helps to have real domain or even fake/local domain(s) in browsers instead IP's which are not easy to remember; if dont have real Domain, just skip DNS guide. As mentioned above, after all these guides, you can have 'http://phpbb3' instead 'http://192.168.1.2/phpbb3'

To setup Access, follow this
[blog.jlbn.net]

To setup VH, follow this
[blog.jlbn.net]

To setup DNS, follow this
[blog.jlbn.net]

Have fun,

FREE One A Day
FREE Photo
FREE Games
FREE Websites
FREE Portable GPS
FREE WAMP Guides