WAMP - World Wide Access

2
votes

I have installed WAMP on my computer running Windows 7. The Apache is running on port 80. I am searching here and there and everybody has its own solution. None of it fulfil the requirement.

Information:

Local IP: 192.168.15.52
External IP: 139.190.233.170 (Collected from whatsmyip.org)

Changed httpd.conf file:

ServerName 139.190.233.170:80

DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www"
<Directory "c:/wamp/www">
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride All
     Order Deny,Allow
     Allow from all
</Directory>

I have also added some rule for port 80 in Windows Firewall and also forward port for my LAN IP. Here is the pic:

My Router Config

Nothing happens after all that. Clicking "Put Online" and watching it to go green, nothing happens. I can access www directory by either localhost IP address (127.0.0.1) or my LAN IP address (192.168.15.152).

Questions:

Is it really possible to put WAMP for world wide access? If it is possible, then how?

I have been searching around but none of them works. I have also searched SO:

Unable to access wamp server from outside my computer

How can i put my WAMP online for someone to access?

e.t.c

Some external sites:

http://www.computerforums.org/forums/server-administration/wamp-server-wont-work-outside-lan-help-207071.html

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20091005091249AAQrHxR

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-accessing-wp-externally-using-wamp

http://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-hosted-wp-wamp-server-not-connecting-externally

http://webhosting.bigresource.com/WAMP-Access-Website-with-my-WAN-IP-pg1Bh4bJ.html

http://guides.jlbn.net/setaccess/setaccess1.html

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apachewampwampserver
It's possible yes. I know people using it in production. But that's using vhosts, but the principle should remain the same. – LeonardChallis
@LeonardChallis vhosts means Virtual Hosts? a VPS? I have also seen people running them for development as well as production but I don't know how to setup that for me. Someone suggested me to use Linux operating system e.g. Ubuntu. It is very easy to handle servers on it. – Muhammad Talha Akbar
No, it's basically a way of handling multiple domains in apache. It just simplifies things for multiple sites. I have added that info to my answer for you. – LeonardChallis

1 Answers

2
votes

It is possible, yes.

I would suggest momentarily disabling the firewalls, trying the connection and seeing if it works. If it does, you know it's firewall - turn windows one on and the other one by one to eliminate them. If it doesn't, you know you have issues.

Remember to run httpd -t from the command prompt to verify that your config is free of errors and of course make sure you restart apache and the W is green in the task bar. Make sure it actually is restarting, too - as some times things like mail servers (hMailServer I am particularly aware of) can stop it happening. In this case you need to restart the wampapache service from the services control panel (Start > services.msc).

Here's some extra info though, as you might be better setting up dynamic DNS. I use DynDNS and have the following vhosts conf:

<VirtualHost *:80>
  ServerName mysite.dyndns.org

  DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
  DocumentRoot /home/mysite/
  <Directory /home/mysite/>
    AllowOverride All
    Allow from All
  </Directory>

  # some logging stuff I cut out here

</VirtualHost>

Put that in mysite.conf inside c:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.21/conf/virtual. The mysite.dyndns.org is the host I have set up at dyndns. Finally, to make virtual hosts work, add this to your httpd.conf:

NameVirtualHost *:80
Include "c:/wamp/bin/apache/Apache2.2.21/conf/virtual/*.conf"

Now, if it still doesn't work you you probably have other issues. Can you telnet on port 80 to that above address? See above firewall issues.