Can't access XAMPP from other computers - xampp

I have installed xampp on my windows7(64bit). I can view my php website from my own computer but others within the same network can't open no matter they tried my own IP 192.168.x.xx/web folder or 127.0.0.1/web folder.
I did the same thing before in the 32bit win7 and it worked fine. I wonder how I can get it work?
I am pretty new to php and xampp so please give more detail. Really appreciate it!

If you are using windows than all you have to do is to go to Allow an app through Windows Firewall.click on Allow another app select Apache and mark public and private both .Again Allow another app this time select xampp and mark both public and private and is done click apply and exit .
Open cmd by pressing windows button+r write cmd than in cmd write ipconfig find out your ip . than open up your browser write down your ip http://192.168.1.x and you will be on the xampp startup page.if you want to access your local site simply put / infront of your ip e.g http://192.168.1.x/yousite.
Now you are able to access your website in private network computers .

Try running this command and verify that your web server port is listening on all interfaces (0.0.0.0):
netstat -an | find "LISTEN"
It is really common for Tomcat to not listen on 0.0.0.0 until you specifically configure it to do so.
Other than that, verify the port is not being blocked by something.

127.0.0.1 definitely wont work as that is the ip address of the local machine.
Are you perhaps missing a port number in your url, so from another computer try 192.168.x.x:80/index.html or similar

May be your firewall configuration is on, change it, your issue will resolve. I too have the same issue and resolved it through this way.

Change Your Firewall Setting. It would be on So Please off window firewall Setting. I hope so it will be work.

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Putty error : Unable to open connection to hostname : Host does not exist

I am using Putty to ssh into some of the servers that I work on. I am able to connect all others except the one. Although I was able to connect to it before. Whenever I try connecting to it, it always give me error:
Unable to open connection on myhost: Host does not exist
My firewall is off and I have even re-installed putty but that did not fix it. When I tried connecting to the same server using putty on some other windows system, I was able to do so. I searched regarding this on Internet but did not find much relevant.
I am running putty on Windows 7.
What can be the possible issue?
As I understand you have three computers involved. At the same time one connection is working and the other one fails. So we can exclude that the ssh daemon on your linux box is hanging.
In lack of knowing their real names I will call your computers linuxbox (this is the computer you want to ssh into), win7ok (that is the computer that you are able to ssh from using putty) and win7fail (that obviously is the computer you can't connect from).
Please do a tracert from both Win7 computers:
tracert linuxbox.your.domain
tracert linuxbox
Add the results to your question as it will help us find out what is happening.
Perhaps it is also a good idea to determine the ip address of the linuxbox from win7ok:
ping linuxbox
or
nslookup linuxbox
Then try to connect from win7fail by using the ip address of the target computer, perhaps it is only a DNS problem (which might be as nmap is failing too).
To make all of this easier to understand for us please provide the real names of the computers as you use them in putty.
For me the problem was with the Url of the reposity. Check remote URL. It must start with git#github.com, not https://.
I used nslookup and then used the ip address it gave me to connect and it worked
I had a similar problem with GitExtensions. The solution was to remove the https url and replace it with git#gitlab....
WRONG:
GOOD:
I just went through this. I have a Cisco VPN I need to use to get through to the Linux machine I wanted to login to and check.
No Putty session would get through using the machines name.
An nslookup on the windows machine yielded the correct address.
I too connected right in via the ip address.
I tried to Google the error and it failed, so I suspected the wireless.
Disconnected and reconnected my WiFi and all was good.
I did it fast enough that open connections stayed open.
And new connections refering to DNS names worked fine.
Seems like maybe some cached DNS addresses were stale.
Your DNS cache stores the locations (IP addresses) of web servers that contain web pages which you have recently viewed. If the location of the web server changes before the entry in your DNS cache updates, you can no longer access the site.
Following CLI command will do the trick:
ipconfig /flushdns

How do I redirect a domain?

I have a php file in my PC, I want the app in my iPhone to access this file! like the app should be redirected to PC with that PHP code, anyone know how to do this? with XAMPP?? I don't know anything about how to configure this, I'm a newbie :/
You're 'hosting' the PHP file on XAMPP. All you have to do is type in the local IP (or your public IP if you want to access it from mobile phone internet (no wlan) and ports open) and you're already there.
Start > cmd.exe > ipconfig
There you usually find your local IP and Public IP.
Incase you have a domain: Add a A-Record

Way to open localhost with different URL

I have tried http://localhost/projectname and http://127.0.0.1/project_name to open my Project in LocalHost
but
I want to open this with some other URL so user can not able to know that I have opened with localhost.
Edited:
My Users currently accessing my project with localhost but now i
want to use some static string to open as url. I mean if currently
users accessing project with localhost/proj but i want to do like
staticString/proj Is it possible?
Is there any way to open project with different URL rather than localhost?
Thanks.
You have to Configure first Virtual Host in your XAMPP or any Web server.
After you can use that name instead of Localhost or IP Address.
Follow this link to configure Virtual Host.
http://sawmac.com/xampp/virtualhosts/
and this also
http://foundationphp.com/tutorials/apache_vhosts.php
You can make use of virtual host configuration in your web server.
Edit your hosts file to include 127.0.0.1 thisismyhost.com
Then can should be able to access your project using thisismyhost.com/my_project
I follow solution of accepted answer but I found one tricky Magic solution for that which i can use without any configuration:
You can use yourString.google It will directly open you localhost.
For Example: Open this link in your browser: pratik.google/
if you have installed xampp it will open your localhost
Really amazing magical trick.
I don't know how it works, May be this is functionality of browsers.
I believe what you are looking for is local tunnel
Use node and npm to install it globally using npm install -g localtunnel
then give the port you want to export lt --port <port>
you will get a link you can share anywhere and anyone can access your localhost site. there are multiple ways and options to it. you can view about it - here!
if you change the port you will see the result like this
> http://localhost:5906/projectname/abc.aspx
right click on the project click on properties and there will be one option web in that change the specific port
hope this may help

apache in xampp won't turn on - after it worked before

I recently installed Xampp on my windows machine. It worked when I just did it, see here. However, now the apache won't turn on. I realize that I did not close it correctly (did not use xampp_stop), so maybe that could be the cause.
The error I am getting is:
make_sock: could not bind to address 0.0.0.0:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
unable to open logs
How can I get it to work?
Just ran into this very well do documented blog with respect to Apache not working.. I think its really good to reference if you have apache startup issues.
apache friends
here are the steps that i note from the link:
Check that xampp folder is not in a folder containing spaces or brackets ie (Program Files (x86)
Make sure that you have run \xampp\setup_xampp.bat (probably as administrator)
in CMD run -netstat -a (or look in Xampp control beta 3 - and press the netstat button... ) , make sure that nothing is running on port 80 ( on win 7 a lot of the time its actually skype that uses port 80) ( quit skype and try again, if so, in skype --> options ->> advanced --> make sure the "use port 80 as alternative checkbox is unchecked"
If "system" is using port 80, then its windows that is using it ( i have read that that is some IIS service) - if you enable xampp as a service and re-boot then xampp grabs port 80 before system...
If you dont want to run as a service then open xampp\apache\conf\http.conf and change the port that apache will run on (search for string "Listen 80" and "ServerName localhost:80" and change 80 to something else eg: "180")
Make sure you are running Xampp control.exe as administrator
Stop your firewall temporarily to see if its being stopped (then try startup apache again) if so, create an exception in windows firewall
Check that your anti-virus is not stopping it.
If you are running windows 7 64 bit ultimate (sp1) (like i am) - then you may still have a problem (like i am)
last try is to delete xampp folder, and download a previous version of xampp, then try again.
If you have any other steps that you think may also cause a problem, please comment.
I ended up solving it.
Go to the Xampp control panel. Check the "Service" check box.
Clicked on "SCM" button. (Or "Service" button, there on the "SCM" button).
Then I clicked on the "Apache" in the list of services. Turned it on.
Now it is labelled as "Running" in the control panel, and "localhost" works.
I ran into this issue a couple months ago. You have to set Apache as an automatic windows service by checking the Svc checkbox in the XAMPP Control Panel. Once you have set it as a service, you will need to restart windows before you can start apache. Once you have restarted windows, you should be able to stop and start Apache through the XAMPP Control Panel.
From a blog post about it:
The reason you have to do this is because Windows 7 has a service called http.sys which starts automatically and uses port 80. Running Apache as an automatic service causes apache to start before the http.sys service. This allows apache to get port 80 before http.sys starts.
One: If it is running as a service, check your services in windows and make sure it is stopped.
Two: If it is not a service, it will just be a process; go into the task manager and find httpd / apache and terminate the process.
Three: Make sure you are running xampp_start / xampp_control as administrator, on some systems this is important.
I would recommend always using xampp_control as it gives a quick window into whether Apache is supposedly running or not even if some unusual events recently occurred.
Try
netstat -aon | more
If this doesn't work, to see if anything else is listening on that port, and terminate that process.
You may also wish to edit Apache's httpd.conf (probably in xamppdir/apache/conf) to listen to another port and see if it will launch.
Steps:
change the httpd.cong file in those lines:
Listen 8080
ServerName localhost:8080 ( port as example, 8080)
Now, create a xampp.ini file where the xampp-control.exe located and put the code into it:
[PORTS]
apache = 8080
Now restart the xampp.
Hope, it will work to change the apache port. But if you have installed oracle 10g client or any software in which perl is installed then do some more steps like bellow:
4.change the lines from:
`# Perl settings`
`Include "conf/extra/httpd-perl.conf"`
to
`# Perl settings`
`#Include "conf/extra/httpd-perl.conf"`
Now restart the xampp and it works properly in 8080 port.
I found the problem in TeamViewer application - it uses port 80 by default. Under advanced setting I made changes so the application will not use port 80 or 443 for incoming connections. Then switched of xammp and ran again. It works!
I had a similar problem, and after a bit of research, found out that the culprit in my case was the "World Wide Web Publishing Service" (W3SVC in the iissvcs Group).
Apache in XAMPP ran without a problem after stopping this service in my case.
My XAMPP Apache all of the sudden wouldn't start, and, while I wasn't getting that error message specifically, it was because I installed a Skype upgrade, and Skype took over port 80 when my PC started which blocked Apache. I tweaked a Skype advanced setting to fix this.
If your issue hasnt been solved, scan this page for the "windows auto fix" link. It worked for me: Ran the tool, restarted PC, all ports open, instantly on.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/811259/en
GL
This might help others that's why I am posting my particular solution. I recently swapped Zend Server CE for XAMPP (2.5). The VHOSTS file had to be set-up with an Include directive to an error_log. I was having issues with SVN so I wiped the project I am working on to get a fresh install. However, I happened to start XAMPP prior to doing an svn checkout. That's when I noticed apache doing the Busy...Apache started [Port 80] business. Someone's comment on this thread reminded me of the Include directive. I climbed through the directories and added a blank error_log and blammo! Apache started up nicely.
This might help someone else too :)
In my case I solved it by opening xampp\apache\conf\http.conf.
I changed Listen 80 to Listen 2337
Above that line I had to add Listen 127.0.0.1:80
Then I opened xampp\apache\conf\httpd-ssl.conf
I changed Listen 80 to Listen 7332
Then I could connect to localhost again.

localhost host not working on XAMPP

I am facing same problem to the thread. I've gone through all the suggestions provided in the solution. I've searched all possible solution but nothing gonna workout.
"http://stackoverflow.com/questions/817745/localhost-not-working-on-xampp-both-service-apache-mysql-are-fine"
I've ensured :
1. Xampp is successfully started (in log) but it is not receiving any request(checked access.log).
also ensured that it is running on port 80 in config file.
confirmed status of application using netstat
C:\Documents and Settings\user>netstat -aon | grep 80
TCP 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:0 LISTENING 3524
Checked host file in /windows/system32/drivers/etc/hosts and has only one entry
127.0.0.1 localhost
skype teamviewer or other application are closed and configured not to use port 80.
ensured that windows firewall allows http process to use port 80.
pinged localhost, 127.0.0.1 and my ip (192.168.1.2). localhost resolves to 127.0.0.1
tried different urls http:// localhost http:// localhost:80 http:// 127.0.0.1 http:// laptop-name but nothing works. browser just waits for response (spaces after http to allow links in this post)
ensured that there is no loop in index.php(it is untouched) and also has index.html. also tried diffent paths
nothing gonnna work out. I am irritated and I dont want to format my machine. please help....
when this happens to me it is usually Skype taking over the default localhost address
Check on command prompt
netstat -a -b
And close any other application like skype etc using 80 port.
Try stopping IIS. It worked for me.
Select Start, then type IIS in the search box
select Internet Information Services Manager
In the manager on the right under "Manage server"select "stop"
I was having an issue with Last.fm that is very similar to yours, and I found that it was a software conflict.
The Last FM scrobbler application would not finish installing on my new build because it couldn't login or authenticate my username. I tried the regular scrobbler application and then tried the beta desktop program on Windows 7 64 bit. I suspected Skype or TeamViewer, but even after stopping or exiting those programs, neither versions of the installation would log in to the services.
The beta desktop application actually authenticated on 127.0.0.1 (random port) through my internet browser, but my browser would time out trying to send data over the port.
I checked and edited my HOSTS file in Windows, but that didn't fix the issue either.
Pinging 127.0.0.1 worked, but pinging any variation of the port would time out.
Finally, I decided to uninstall the Windows 7 Firewall Control program made by Sphinx Software. Mind you, I had set the firewall to be disabled at start up (clean start-up - all startup programs disabled through MSConfig).
I made sure that the firewall program was not running at all in my services. However, after uninstalling the software, even without restarting my computer, 127.0.0.1 opened up on all ports and my Last.fm scrobbler finally connected and finished installation.
So, it may be a hidden setting that can only be undone by uninstalling programs (even programs that aren't running).
For me localhost was not the correct address.
Type into cmd "hostname" and use that as the url.
CMD -> hostname
If that doesn't work try just the ip address of the server (or computer)
I stored my website folder in xamp/htdocs (windows machine). Then I started apache on the XAMP control panel. My pages rendered successfully when I called http://localhost/mysite/index.html.
I hope this is helpful.

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