How can I access my Laravel app from another PC?

Question

I\'m trying to access my Laravel app from another PC in the same network using IP address but I can\'t get it to work by accessing 192.168.1.101:8000 in my browser.

Answer 1

1. Find your machine local IP:

ifconfig

2. Go to project folder and type following command:

sudo php artisan serve --host your_ip --port your_port

example:

sudo php artisan serve --host 192.168.1.70 --port 8080

3. Browse form other computer:

192.168.1.70:8080

Answer 2

You can do it by using laravel's built in command php artisan serve.

Follow the steps:

1. Go to your project's root directory within command line.
2. run php artisan serve

If you still can't access port 8000 or it is already in use then run:

php artisan serve --port 8383

And it should listen on new port you provided. Also you can set other options for this command. Look for the help php artisan help serve.

Answer 3

Access laravel using your IP address

php artisan serve --host 0.0.0.0 

Now you can access laravel server by http://laravel-server-ip-address:8000

If you want to change the port as well then

php artisan serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8101

Now your laravel server is http://laravel-server-ip-address:8101

Answer 4

Use this command in which ip address is ip-v4. Check ip-v4 from your wifi connection properties.

php artisan serve --host 192.168.10.15 --port 5000

Answer 5

Why don't you use Laravel's artisan for it? Very simple:

sudo php artisan serve --host 192.168.1.101 --port 80

Now from other computers, you can type: http://192.168.1.101

Do not forget to replace the IP with your own local one. That's it.

Answer 6

1. Go to httpd.conf in Apache folder and find the following lines:

   DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www"
   <Directory "c:/wamp/www">
       # ...Stuffs in here
       Options Indexes FollowSymLinks
       # ...Stuffs in here
       AllowOverride All
       #
       # Controls who can get stuff from this server.
       #
       Require all granted
   </Directory>
   

2. Then replace the last line within <Directory> tag for:

        Order Deny,Allow
        Deny from all
        Allow from 127.0.0.1
        Allow from ::1
        Allow from localhost
   </Directory>
   

3. Add a virtual host for your laravel application, go to httpd-vhosts.conf and add the following lines:

   <VirtualHost *:80>
       DocumentRoot "D:/.../your-laravel-app-path/public"
       ServerName yourservername.dev
       <Directory "D:/.../your-laravel-app-path/public">
           AllowOverride All
           Order deny,allow
           Allow from all
           Require all granted
       </Directory>
   </VirtualHost>
   

4. Restart all your apache services

This should do it, i'm using wamp on Windows and works for me.