Accessing virtual host from computer on same local network

Question

I am trying to make a setup so that I can access my website on a virtual host in computer A from computer B. Both A and B are on the same network. I am using xampp on Win 7.

Answer 1

Ok So Seto El Kahfi's reply to my very old question led me to do some more research and reading on Apache's website.

So what I got is this, my NameVirtualHost directive was improper. So Instead of this,

NameVirtualHost project:81



    DocumentRoot "D:/work/website"
    ServerName project:81
    
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI    
    AllowOverride All
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all
    

What I had to do was this.

NameVirtualHost *:81



    DocumentRoot "D:/work/website"
    ServerName project
    
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks Includes ExecCGI    
    AllowOverride All
    Order Allow,Deny
    Allow from all
    

Notice the ' * ' , I could have used an IP Address there too.(In this case my server's(machine A) local IP) both work. Now all I had to do is enter "project:81" on the client machine, and I get what my eyes wished to see.. :)

Few things I got from this.

1) How to use NameVirtualHost(or what it's purpose basically is.). Read More here http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#namevirtualhost This one is also good http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/07/apache-virtual-host/

2)You can use this via command line:

httpd -D DUMP_VHOSTS

to know how your virtual hosts are setup(will also give you some warnings regarding precedence if something's wrong with your setup)

3)Other's gesture to help you makes you help yourself.. :) So keeping helping and rocking.