Setting up WAMP to run on a LAN

Question

I've installed WAMP on a Windows 7 PC, and it is running fine locally, as localhost.

I want PCs on the LAN to be able to view the local server. When they load my PC's IP address in their browser, they receive a "You don't have permission to access / on this server" error.

I followed this guide, but the issue remains. To recap:

• I've added an inbound exception to Windows Firewall for port 80 for Private and Domain connections.
• I've edited Apache's httpd.conf to include:

Listen 80

Listen 192.168.0.5:80

< Directory "c:/wamp/www/wordpress/" >
allow from all
< /Directory >

• I've edited httpd-vhosts.conf to include:

< VirtualHost 192.168.0.5:80 >
DocumentRoot "C:/wamp/www/wordpress"
< /VirtualHost >

Any ideas?

Answer 1

In my local Wordpress, the Wordpress address and Site address were both using localhost.

I changed this to the IP address, and the problem is resolved.