Timeline for How to access a website through a Local Area Network that localhost change to a domain name
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| Dec 1, 2017 at 1:52 | vote | accept | Angelica | ||
| Nov 29, 2017 at 18:10 | history | edited | DocRoot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Changed "sample.com" to "example.com"
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| Nov 29, 2017 at 16:50 | answer | added | DocRoot | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 27, 2017 at 23:18 | comment | added | closetnoc | Within a LAN, local area network, you need to assign an IP address, such as the one @dan suggests, to your network on the web server then configure your webserver (Apache or whatever), to respond to requests from that same IP address. On your client PC, you would need to add the domain name and IP address to the local file and NOT to the local file of the web server. As well, you need to create the site on the web server. It seems to me you are missing quite a few steps in the process. Cheers!! | |
| S Nov 27, 2017 at 13:21 | history | suggested | DocRoot | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Code formatting, grammar.
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| Nov 27, 2017 at 8:08 | comment | added | dan♦ |
127.0.0.1 is your internal IP address, other devices on your local network will not be able to resolve that. You'll need to create an A record in your domain's DNS table and point that to your router's public IP address, then forward port 80 to the private IP (e.g., 192.168.0.2) of your local computer running Apache. You'll also need to disable any firewall rules for port 80 on that computer. Easier than all the above however is just to use the private IP address as the URL in your other devices, but you'll still need to disable the firewall for the computer running Apache.
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| Nov 27, 2017 at 5:31 | history | asked | Angelica | CC BY-SA 3.0 |