How to make my application available over LAN

Hi

I am running Apache on my PC to run the PHP scripts for my DB application. I now want the application to be available for other users to play with. All our machines talk to to a Win2K server. To my knowledge the server doesn't have Apache on it.

Please give any answers as you would to a 3 year old as I know virtually nothing about server admin.

Thanks in anticipation.

Carol

OK, here we go.

Step 1. Search your httpd.conf file for the word 'listen' and see what is listed there, it is usually an ip address or 'localhost' followed by the port number the server is listening on (usually 80, but might be different). Add an entry that matches your Machine name (and the port number.)

for example...

listen your_machine_name:80

Step 2. restart apache.

Step 3. give the address you just entered in the httpd.conf file to whomever you wish to look at the application.

Step 4. have them open their browser and type in the address. for example...

http://your_machine_name/your_app_folder/your_php_page_name.php

Note, if the port number is anything other than 80,(8080 etc...) the address would look like...

http://your_machine_name:8080/your_app_folder/your_php_page_name.php


Since you are already running a web server on your lan, you can access it as if it was an address on the internet.

hope that helps...

P.S. I am running the same thing on my lan, so I know that it should work.

Dear Blindeddie

Thanks very much. I worked perfectly.

Regards

Carol