Topic: http://localhost works, but http://192.168.0.5 doesn't

[ahlandberg]

Hello All,

I am new to Apache web server setup and am encountering a problem when accessing the server using the host machine's IP address.

When I enter http://localhost or http://127.0.0.1 into the URL of the browser, I can access my document root. However, when I try to access it using the host machine's IP address, it times out.

I have set up port forwarding on my router that will forward port 80 to 192.168.0.5.

My httpd.conf file looks as follows for my document root:

<Directory "D:/localhost">
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

I am using the "Allow from all" setting, so I don't understand why URL requests from the local IP don't resolve.

Thank you for your help.

Anders

[Kanashii]

Listen 127.0.0.1:80
Listen 192.168.0.5:80

[molitar]

Ok I had this exact same problem. Check out the .htaccess file in the root directory mine was set to Deny from all allow from 127.0.0.1 which means only localhost has access. Took me 2 days to figure why this was happening.