Now in the window that appears you should select the following in the order they appear:
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To do this you'll need to navigate to your firewall's advanced settings which can be found in the side-panel at:Ĭontrol Panel -> System and Security -> Windows FirewallĪ window should now open that looks like the following:įrom here we need to create a new inbound rule which can be done by navigating to the "Inbound rules" section and clicking "New rule.". To allow connections through this port you need to create a new inbound rule for your firewall. Step 2: Allowing connections to your server through your firewallĬurrently, connections to port 80 ( the port on which the server listens for connections ) should be blocked by your firewall. This isn't exactly great for security as you should rather only be allowing the specific IP's that you want to connect with, but for this tutorial we'll stick to this simple solution. These settings- specifically "Require local"- currently only allow local connections from the computer on which the server is running, this should be modified to "Require all granted" which will allow any computer to connect to your server.
Options +Indexes +Includes +FollowSymLinks +MultiViews In WAMP server version 3.0.6 you'll need to modify the permissions that are found within Apache's nf file which can be found by clicking the WAMP icon in task bar and hovering over the "Apache" dropdown.įor this particular version of WAMP, this file dictates the general permissions for accessing the server, unlike earlier versions where settings had to modified in the nf file.If you have WAMP installed in the directory C:/wamp64, then by default your nf file should look similar to the following: ServerName localhost Step 1: setting permissions to allow other users to access your server For security reasons this should not be used to permanently host a website that you expect other users to access unless you really know what you're doing.įor this tutorial you will need the latest version of WAMP server (3.0.6) which can be downloaded from
This can be useful for testing your websites on other devices and remotely accessing data on your PC. With WAMP server it is possible to host your own websites from your own computer by making a few changes.
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