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WAMP Server Search po

So you want host your own website, well you found the right
post. If you have a spare Windows machine and some time, I
will show you how to host your own website using WAMP
server from your home or of ce. In this post I will show you the
steps I took to con gure WAMP to start my web server and host
my own website for testing and personal projects.

You may have one or several reasons why you would want to
host your own website, perhaps you want to:

host a small personal blog.

host a portfolio site.

host your resume.

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test a web application.

or just simply learn how to setup your own web server, of

course.

Any of these project can be easily hosted from your own web
server without having to pay a company for web hosting.
However, I would NOT recommend this approach if you are
doing anything complex, like a business or eCommerce site, or
generally a site that you expect to grow and get a lot of traf c,
as most ISP would not allow this and even if they do you will
probably end up having to invest more time and money on
better software and hardware to keep up. Rather, I recommend
using a good web host, like SiteGround or GreenGeeks, to do
these types of projects.

In my case, I want to test a tool like MainWP without the

restrictions of a web host and I do not want to spend a lot of
money for VPS hosting, so for me it makes sense to run this on
my own web server. I have an HP ProLiant mini server which
is a nice and small eco-friendly machine that is always on.
Hosting my website on it will not only save me money but it
will allow me to change any parameters typically not allowed
in shared hosting plans, like memory limits and max
execution timeouts (ugh!).

The mini HP ProLiant machine runs Windows Home Server

2011 and it is ideal as a personal or even as a small business
web server. But technically, you may do this on any reliable
machine running Windows 7, 8 or even on another operating
system, although this post is geared towards Windows users.
The HP mini server runs quiet and cool, so you may want to
consider how loud and how hot your machine gets if you plan
on using it as an ‘always on’ server.

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In my case, I will need to consider any roles my server has

before adding WAMP to serve my web pages. Currently, my
server is running IIS to allow me to view, save, and retrieve
les from my home network as well as from the outside world
via a web browser. If I want to use WAMP Server, I will need to
disable the IIS service.

Once you have taken the above into consideration you should
be ready to begin. Well enough talk and lets get started.

Install WAMP Server

I have a separate post on how to do this if you need help with
this step. Simply download wamp
server from wampserver.com/en/ and take the defaults. Once it
is installed you will notice the green light on the wamp icon on
your system tray.

If the icon is red or orange, you have a con ict with another
application. In my case, most of the time I encounter this issue
is if IIS is running on the machine. You can check what service
is using port 80 if you want to con rm this. Go to  Apache –>
Service –> Test Port 80 and see which service is using port 80.
If IIS is using the port, you will want to disable the following
service: IIS Admin Service and World Wide Web Publishing
Service.

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You can check out my post on troubleshooting the orange

status light in WAMP Server for additional help with the
orange status light.

Set WAMP Server to run on automatic

Con gure the ‘Startup Type’ under Window services to
automatic for both wampapache64 and wampmysqld64
services.

Now you will want to make wampmanager.exe start when

Windows starts. So in case you re-start your server, or it re-
starts itself due to Windows updates, power surges, or other
unpredictable cause, your are covered.

Check out my post on Con guring WAMP Server on Windows

for WordPress local development for further details on how to
do this step.

Con gure Windows Firewall to

allow wampmanager, port 80 and 443
Port 80 and 443 must be allow for both TCP and UDP packets.
To do this, create 2 inbound rules for TPC and UDP on
Windows Firewall for port 80 and 443.

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Also, allow wampmanager.exe found in the wamp installation

folder, in my case that is C:\wamp.

Set the MySQL root password

This is a very important step. I suggest making a strong
password with upper and lower case letters and numbers,
throw in a couples of symbols too. There are a few ways to do
this, one is by going to the MySQL console and typing the
appropriate commands, another way is via the GUI (graphical
user interface) using SQL Buddy or PHPMyAdmin. Go to my
post on how to set the Root password for MySQL for steps by
steps instructions on how to do this.

Con gure PHPMyAdmin

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Con gure phpMyAdmin to require a password. Open the

con g.inc.php le found in
C:\wamp\apps\phpmyadmin[version#] and edit the following:

On the following lines..

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] =
'config';

Change ‘con g’ to ‘http’.

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';

Delete user root and just leave the quotation marks empty, like
so = ‘ ‘;

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['AllowNoPassword'] =
true;

Change true to false.

Create a Log Out URL by adding the following line..

$cfg['Servers'][$i]['LogoutURL'] =
'http://your-external-ip-address/';

Now, if you have a static IP, you should be ok entering it here.

But in case you do not, like most of us, then you will want to
enter the domain you plan on using for your website
(recommended).

Save your le and go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin – You

should be prompted for a user name and password now.

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Con gure Apache

Now we need to make Apache listen to port 80 on our host
machine. For this, open your httpd.conf le found
under C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache[version#]\conf and edit the
following lines:

Listen 0.0.0.0:80
ServerName localhost:80

Change it to..

Listen youripaddress:80
ServerName youripaddress

where youripaddress is equal to the local ip address of your

web server.

Find <Directory “c:/wamp/www/”> and enter:

Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all

right before </Directory>

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Save the le.

Con gure PHPMyAdmin Alias le

This will allow us to access PHPMyAdmin from the web. Open

phpmyadmin.conf found in C:\wamp\alias and edit the
following line:

Require local

and replace it with..

Require all granted

Save the le. You should now be able to access the site via
http://youripaddress and PHPMyAdmin
via http://youripaddress/phpmyadmin

Enhancing Security

Please note that WAMP Server is commonly used for local

development, and not as a hosting platform for production as it
is inherently un-secure. However, you can take some measures
to secure it like the ones I am going to suggest here.

Here are a few things to check for: Open your httpd- Newsletter
default.conf  le found under Get the latest post
C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache[version#]\conf\extra and make right in your inbox!
sure you set the following parameters..

Name
ServerTokens Prod

This directive con gures what WAMP returns as the Server Email
HTTP response, setting it to prod returns the least info.

Subscribe
ServerSignature Off

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This will stop Apache from broadcasting the server signature,

which includes server version and virtual host name and other
possibly sensitive information.

TimeOut 60

This will help prevent DoS attacks. It should be 60 by default

but check just in case.

Re-start all services if you haven’t been doing so by clicking on

‘Restart all services‘.

You are almost done, next step is to remove the les in the
www folder. You can delete them or move them to another
folder outside www.

You can now place your website les in here.

For additional security, I suggest placing an index le in the

root and any sub directory of your website.

Adding an htaccess le with an unauthorized directory

browsing rule would be ideal. You can drop this line in the
.htaccess le:

#to disable directory browsing

Options All -Indexes

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and place it in your root (www) and that should take care of
things. To create an .htacces le in Windows check out this
post on StackOverFlow. Also, check out Perishablepress
htaccess tricks page for some cool things you can do with
htaccess les to greatly enhance your websites security.

I wrote this tutorial based on my own experience with WAMP

and what I have learned from others on the internet. I am not a
security expert so if you have any suggestions on how to
further secure WAMP or you have some best practices please
feel free to let me know in the comments below.

Forward web traf c to your web server’s IP.

If you are reading this, I am going to assume you are somewhat
familiar with port forwarding . But if you need help, just type
‘port forwarding’ in Google and you will get many sites that
will show you how to forward a port. Basically, you want to
forward any web traf c on port 80 to your machines local IP
address. If you plan on using ssl, you may also want to forward
port 443. On my router, it looks something like this:

Put WAMP Server online

The last step is to put WAMP server online.

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You did it!  Now sit back, enjoy some tea and watch your web
server do what its meant to do, serve your web pages to the
world!

Hopefully this will help you in your current and future web
projects. If you have any questions about this setup please
leave me a comment below and I will be happy to help.

Thank you for stopping by.

Disclosure: Please note some of the links in this post are

af liate links, which will allow me to get a small commission
if you end up purchasing/or using the recommended product.
You will be helping me out and the cost of the product will still
be the same. Thank you!

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76 Comments on “How to host your own

website using WAMP Server”

archana says: October 6, 2015 at 11:58 pm

Hi Henry,
I have done same things and am able to access my
webpage from outside. I wish I would have nd your site
before. Anyways, the question is, how safe is it? Is this
method prone to hackers? is it safer to use web hosting
services?

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Henry says: October 11, 2015 at 3:46 pm

Hi archana, I think implementing some of the

suggestions on this post will go a long way but
remember that nothing is 100% secure. I would only
use this for personal projects though. I recommend
using a good web host for anything that involves
sensitive information, like e-commerce.

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Kyle says: December 6, 2015 at 11:54 am

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I had WAMP working great on Windows 7, decided to

upgrade to Windows 10, and now I’m unable to access my
server from the web. All of my ports are forwarded
correctly, I have local access to my site, WAMP icon is
green and online. My Domain Name is forwarded to the
correct public IP address. IIS is disabled in Win10. I’ve
followed so many tutorials to setup WAMP, but all of them
are based on Windows 7 & 8, none are for Win10. Any
ideas?

I could just go back to Win7, or run a VM with Win7 and

run it from there instead.

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Henry says: December 6, 2015 at 2:40 pm

I had not tried Win10 yet with WAMP, I am still

running my setup on Windows 7. Try checking
Windows Firewall and make sure you allow the
WAMP services and the necessary ports. Once I
upgrade I will update this post with any new info.
Let me know if this helps or if you nd a solution
for this, I’d love to hear about it. Thanks!

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Karl says: March 4, 2016 at 1:53 pm

Are you running wamp in compatibility mode for

windows 7? it works for me

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farzad says: January 1, 2016 at 2:06 am

hi henry u are greate man

how i can use my website with domain name ?
really i wana everybody from outside just type my adress
like http://www.test.com and see my index.htm le
whitout see my ip addresss.

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Henry says: January 1, 2016 at 3:18 pm

Hi farzad, you can de nitely use your own domain

name. You will need to register the domain and get
Dynamic DNS service to be able to point the
domain to your web server. This is the typical
option for non-static IPs. A company named No-IP
provides Dynamic DNS service that works great.
You can check out their page for more info:
http://www.noip.com/remote-access. They have a
free option but you will have to use domains
provided by them. Hope this helps

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Graeme says: April 5, 2016 at 5:04 pm

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Hi Henry,
Thanks for the great article.

I’ve developed a wordpress site locally running

wampserver, and now I want to host it temporarily for
other people to view and comment before I pay for proper
hosting and move it live.
Having followed all your instructions, the site is indeed
accessible from the web, but unfortunately the content
doesn’t work properly since all the links (and presumably
media, theme etc) are all pointing at localhost/…
I’m hoping that I’ve just missed something – do you
know if there is a simple way to resolve this (ideally
make all the locations relative rather than absolute)?

Cheers,
Graeme

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Henry says: April 9, 2016 at 6:00 pm

It may be that your DB needs to be updated with

your domain info. I recommend using the DB
replace tool as shown on this post –>
https://www.hsnyc.co/how-to-transfer-a-live-
wordpress-website-to-your-localhost-manually/.
Hope this helps.

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Andrei says: April 11, 2016 at 3:49 pm

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When you said : ” Save your le and go to

C:\localhost\phpmyadmin ” I didn’t found any le
localhost in C or D or in the wamp folder … What can I do
? Do you have any suggestion ? I followed your steps but
there I couldn’t found these le ….

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Andrei says: May 8, 2016 at 8:55 am

Never mind I made the site. But now I hove another

question …. I want to put the domain name for it,
but when I try to put it (from hosts and by
con guring vhosts from apache), it’s not working
for others to access the site …

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Henry says: May 14, 2016 at 3:21 pm

Hi Andrei, sorry, I meant to say

http://localhost/phpmyadmin. I will change this on
the post. Thanks for your comment.

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Pragna
says: April 13, 2016 at 10:28 pm
Patel

hi henry, i want to set up a icon if my ip is able to ping to

local address it would lit to green but if its a failure it
would lit to gree. please assist

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Henry says: June 1, 2016 at 5:29 pm

Hi Pragna, I am not sure what you are trying to do.

Can you elaborate a bit more..?

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Ujwal says: May 31, 2016 at 9:25 am

Hai henry,
you have told that we can use our own domain, and i
have created a host on no-ip.com. after that what should i
do to make my website available on that domain. please
help…

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Henry says: June 1, 2016 at 5:53 pm

Hi Ujwal, you will need to point that host to your ip

address. Then make sure that your router is
forwarding any internet traf c to your web server’s
ip. If you have a dynamic ip, then you will need to
download the Dynamic DNS Update Client tool
provided by No-IP. You can download it via their
website http://www.noip.com/download. Hope this
helps

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Duong says: June 7, 2016 at 6:21 pm

Hi Henry,
I’m hosting this on an internal server here at work.
I eventually got WordPress to work somewhat. The rst
issue I came across was not being able to create any
posts, save anything, or upload images.
Do you know what else I can do?
I have not forwarded any ports, but the page is visible
within our internal network at work. I just can’t perform
any tasks within WordPress when logged in.
Thanks in advance.

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Henry says: June 8, 2016 at 9:38 pm

Interesting, I have not come across that issue. Are

all the site pages visible? Have you tried other
browsers? If so, I would try a re-install of WP. Not
sure what can be causing it at this point.

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Duong says: June 9, 2016 at 12:21 pm

Thanks for responding.

I’m getting an error whenever I’m trying to

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save anything.
Here’s the error:
POST http://exampleURL.com/wp-
admin/admin-ajax.php
net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET

load-scripts.php?c=1&load[]=jquery-
core,jquery-
migrate,utils,plupload&ver=4.5.2:4

I’ll try to re-install.

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June 9, 2016 at 12:23

Duong says:
pm

Forgot to mention that all the site

pages are visible. Something is
blocking it from saving and uploading.

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Levi says: June 15, 2016 at 4:04 am

Con gure Apache>>

Listen youripaddress:80
ServerName youipaddress

which one is 127.0.0.1 ???

I think the rest will be my network’s internal IP

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(123.4.5.6)?
make a bit elaborated?

I would like to thank you for the best ever guide on how
to create webpages.

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Henry says: June 16, 2016 at 1:53 pm

Hi Levi, 127.0.0.1 is your loopback address. The

ServerName is the IP address of your server. On
most home routers this is normally an internal IP
that starts in 192.168.x.x. Hope this helps. Thank
you for the comment

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Levi says: June 18, 2016 at 9:42 am

I installed the wamp on a machine working in a LAN. the

internal IP of the PC is 172.2.10.x. so I think you told me to
put this IP as |ServerName; so what about |Listen
xx.x.xx.x: 80??? what kind of IP should I put there??? You
wrote a bit confusing thing under in your article that
reads [youripaddress & youipaddress].
=================================================
==========
sorry for taking your time, but I have an other question?
————————————————————————————————–
I want to install Joomla, and may be similar other, on my
wamp server by making sub folders in the www root; I

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already deleted the les existed in www according to

your explanations.
You said in the article that I should to write index.php as
well as .htaccess to create sub folders. As you see from
my questions, I am a beginner. So please prepare brief
article on this issue and just try to give me and others
some exemplary codes that can help beginners to prepare
their own index.php and .htaccess les.

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Henry says: June 25, 2016 at 2:34 pm

Sorry, that was a typo. I have corrected it on the

article. It was meant to say ‘youripaddress’. So on
both ServerName and Listen you would enter the
same IP. Hope this clears the confusion.

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Nupur says: June 24, 2016 at 8:46 am

By what name will the website go and where will I put

my web address

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Internally, the address is ‘localhost’ to access the

root.. if using a directory for your site then this will
be ‘localhost/[directory name]’. Hope this helps.

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Kimi says: June 30, 2016 at 6:15 pm

OK, I read your guide and it is one of the best that I found
on this topic, nevertheless I still have problems to make it
work and it is really important for me to resolve this
issue asap.

So, if you have time, i would appreciate your answer.

I followed all the steps in your guide, for windows

rewall, apache con g, phpmyadmin conf, router setting,
forwarded port to my local ip adress (on port forwarding
check it says it is open) and when i type in my public ip
in browser, i get ERR_EMPTY_RESPONSE (localhost
works). I read somewhere that port 80 is maybe causing
this, but when change it to 8080 it says
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED (localhost also works on
8080 when i change it). I would guess that problem is
with my apache settings but really don’t know what to
change.

This my third day with this problem, so any help would

be more then welcome! Even some direction, because i
am running out with patience and ideas…

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Henry says: July 9, 2016 at 4:40 pm

I have not dealt with this issue before but after

entering this error in the all mighty Google I found
many articles that suggested a x. One of them is to
open your command window (run –> CMD) and
enter the following commands:

ipcon g /release
ipcon g /all
ipcon g / ushdns
ipcon g /renew

netsh int ip set dns

netsh winsock reset

See if that helps. If not try entering this error on

Google and see what others suggest. The
suggestion I made here is from the second article
from the Google search results. I hope this helps.

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Aditya
says: July 20, 2016 at 5:15 am
Shrivastava

After doing all this ,the apache service is not getting start.
please help?

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Henry says: July 21, 2016 at 5:39 pm

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Hi Aditya, check out the suggestions on this post –

> https://www.hsnyc.co/troubleshooting-the-
orange-status-light-in-wamp-server/

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Chaos
says: August 5, 2016 at 10:47 am
Incorporated

Great walk through ,

had some issues with using this method on win 10 , but I
was using the 3.04 snapshot of WAMP .
after going back to the 2.5 avor of WAMP, everything
installed and setup smoothly . My intentions are just to
use this as a simple server to host a page for my son and
his friends video game clan . Thanks for the help!

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Henry says: August 8, 2016 at 4:44 pm

Awesome!, glad it was helpful. Thanks for the

comment

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collins says: August 7, 2016 at 6:24 am

hey henrgy am having a problem con guring my apache

server am using version 2.4.9 i cant nd the Listen
0.0.0.0:80

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ServerName localhost:80
and
which le should i put this
Order Allow,Deny
Allow from all
am bit lost there please help thank you

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Henry says: August 8, 2016 at 4:42 pm

Hey Collins, you would make these edits in the

httpd.conf le found under
C:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.4.9\conf (on
Windows of course). Hope this helps.

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Shai says: August 19, 2016 at 10:37 pm

I’m running my database in wamp server now I added a

login and register to my site. the problem is it’s not
connecting to the database for registration issues. know
any code? or something to sync the db?

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Are you trying to sync the DB between your local

and production servers?

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Shai says: August 24, 2016 at 7:35 pm

Yes. I’m using winscp for my local server

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August 25, 2016 at

Henry says:
11:05 am

Are you using WP?.. if so this plug-in

looks useful for this –
https://github.com/wp-sync-db/wp-
sync-db

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August 25, 2016 at 9:36

Shai says:
pm

No not WP, just sublime and

Notepad++.

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Christopher says: December 15, 2016 at 12:28 pm

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Hi Henery, great article. Will this allow my friends to

access my webpage too? Thanks

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Christopher says:
December 15, 2016 at 12:29 pm

Henry* Typo. 15 Characters or more

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Henry says: December 16, 2016 at 9:01 pm

Absolutely, It will be available on the internet and

therefore visible to the entire world

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Marius
says: January 17, 2017 at 12:24 am
Lixandru

Hello, Can we install wordpress and redirect bought

domain exemple From godaddy to own machine ip
adress?

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Henry says: January 21, 2017 at 10:13 am

Hi Marius, yes you can do this using a service like

no-ip.
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Marius January 25, 2017 at 3:05

says:
Lixandru pm

And if i have x ip? i need no-ip service?

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January 25, 2017 at

Henry says:
6:55 pm

If you want a domain name to resolve

to it then I believe you do need it.

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Cam
says: January 18, 2017 at 7:56 pm
Loren

I’m having a problem with my external IP not being able

to connect to my web server due to a 403 error.

I tested phpmyadmin and I can access it externally when

entering my information.

But all that pop ups when I go to my external IP is that

error saying I don’t have permission to access it. I have a
feeling it has to do with apache’s httpd.conf le. I’m
running Windows 10 if that makes a difference.

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Henry says: January 21, 2017 at 10:18 am

Yes, this sounds like an issue with your httpd.conf

le. I would give it a second look to make sure all is
right.

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Sunil
says: January 30, 2017 at 7:16 am
Pandya

Dear Henry
I am from India, My Name is Sunil Pandya

I want to know that i have web domain from godaddy, i

am trying to do as per your step, but i am not able to see
my website if i type my web domain, i am changing
virtual host in apache, also in windows, I have also with
me static ip from my ISP.
I want to know i have to write 127.0.0.1 to godaddy
manage domain page? or my static ip?
In Short I have web domain from registrar godaddy, i will
download wamp to my laptop harddisk, this domain i
want to attach wamp which i have downloaded, can you
give the step by step blog?

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Hi Sunil, I would enter the static IP in GoDaddy so

that your domain knows where to go. Hope this
helps.

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Rosoldier says: February 6, 2017 at 6:31 am

HEY, HENRY, i want to add time countdown display

FROM 60 minutes (00:59:59> so that if time reaches
00:00:00 the page closes and submit data lled in the
form.

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Henry says: February 12, 2017 at 12:06 pm

Hey Rosoldier.. sounds like a job that can be done

with some Javascript.

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David says: March 25, 2017 at 12:41 pm

Hi Henry
i’m wondering why doesn’t matter if i put wamp online or
of ine i can still see my webpages, please can you
explain if there is a way to change that.

Great site btw.

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thanks
David

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Henry says: March 26, 2017 at 11:24 am

Hi David, thats odd. The pages may be cached. I

have not used wamp for over a year now. Try
mamp. It is now available for Windows –>
https://www.mamp.info/en/

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Rahul says: April 25, 2017 at 7:26 am

Hi Henry,

Two Qs.
1. I am trying to host a wordpress blog to my team in my
company (max 30 people). I would add/edit my content in
admin mode and the team who are in same network are
supposed to see the content whenever they type the url.
My current URL is
http://myip/wordpressfoldername — This gives me admin
view of the site. I can edit the contents and settings
http://localhost/wordpressfoldername –Thisalso gives
me same as above.Except that the landing page doesnt
have site customisation options . Rest remains the same

How to proceed to host this site so that my team mates

can do a read only and I can do edit/add/delete

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Now When I type http://myip/wordpressfoldername from

any other computer .I am getting ‘You don’t have
permission to access / on this server.’ error.

2.If My goal matches with what you described here .

Please tell me where in windows i need to con gure the
below step

“Con gure Windows Firewall to allow wampmanager,

port 80 and 443 “

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Henry says: April 26, 2017 at 11:37 pm

Hi Rahul,

Not sure why you get the admin panel by visiting

the url you described. The default path would be
yoursite/wp-admin. If you mean you are able to see
the admin bar then it means you are logged in. 2.
You can open the Windows Firewall by typing
“Windows Firewall” in the Windows search box. It
may look different based on the Windows version
you are using. But basically you will want to create
those two inbound rules and that should do it. It
can also test by disabling the Firewall temporarily.
Hope this helps.

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I have a little problem here. When I do localhost:8888 it

works it shows phpMyAdmin . When I do
localhost:8888/wordpress it gives 404 error and it is also
drops the port number so the url looks like this
http://localhost/wordpress/

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Henry says: April 26, 2017 at 11:41 pm

You should be able to omit the port number once

you con gure Apache to listen on port 80.

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Noureen
says: July 6, 2017 at 11:45 pm
Javaid

Hi sir, can we use adsense ads using wamp server or i

should ask can we earn money by using our own
hosting?
Thanku

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Amit says: September 18, 2017 at 7:11 pm

hello sir ,
i am running wamp server version 3 on windows
10. I did all the things you mentioned above .The
server is running online showing green icon , yet i

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am unable to access the website using my public ip

address.
It shows some 503 error. Although , i am able to
access the site on my other devices , but only
through LAN . I have done port forwarding also .
Thank you .

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Mel says: August 29, 2017 at 4:10 pm

Hi Henry,

This site can’t be reached

localhost refused to connect.
ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED

When I try to access my website from another device

within my LAN, I received the above error messages.
Kindly help.

Many thanks, and more power to you!

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Carter says: September 18, 2017 at 8:22 pm

Hi, hope you are able to reply, but I want to know why
people from the outside can see that my website is for
sale, http://mcgp.com/test.html , this is the address

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Saklecha says: September 26, 2017 at 3:36 pm

Hello, Hanry!
Thank you so much for the article, really helped a lot. I
have a question though, how can I host my website which
is created on WAMP server to a given domain, and do I
need to transfer the tables created in database as well?
Also, do I need to transfer all the les used in the eld?
Kindly help me with this, thanks in advance.

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catherine says: October 10, 2017 at 11:17 am

hi Henry please how can i create a project folder on the

wamp server root directory

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Henry says: October 17, 2017 at 10:47 pm

Hi Catherine, on Windows you can just right-click

inside the directory and select “New Folder”.

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Nirmall says: November 4, 2017 at 6:45 am

Hi Henry,

This is a great setup for wamp users.

But I still have a problem…………can i change my
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“localhost” domain name to something else like

“project1”?
I really need this help? Please help as soon as possible?
Best Regards,

Nirmall

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Henry says: November 4, 2017 at 1:50 pm

Yes, you can change it by setting up a domain

name and using a dynamic DNS service like No-IP
– https://www.noip.com/

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Sherzod says: November 23, 2017 at 9:26 pm

I have to ips. One is external ip and one is internal ip. So

which one should I write on the Servername?

“ServerName ???????”

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Henry says: December 5, 2017 at 4:56 pm

Your internal IP.

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Karthikeyan says: December 18, 2017 at 7:51 am

I have bought the domain skylifeinc.co.in from godaddy.

How do i host it in my house using wamp?
Please email the procedure to me.
Please………………………
I want to do it badly.
Please……………………………………

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Jason says: December 19, 2017 at 4:19 am

Hey Henry,

I have made a simple database using Wamp Server. I

want to link that to my website dashboard to show
dynamic tables.
I tired few ways but none of them seem to work.
what would you suggest?
Thank you!

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Karthikeyan says:December 19, 2017 at 12:03 pm

Should i type my domain or my ipadressin

‘youripaddress’ as you said in your article.

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E2 says: December 30, 2017 at 12:20 pm

Hello Henry,
I appreciate your good works on this article, but I have
been reading many articles on this same subject matter,
and most of the articles specify that the ISPs do block
port 80, in this case what is your advice for one to boycott
this barrier, or is there any other way one can con gure
his/her server to work without permission from the ISP?

Thank you in anticipation as I await your reply please.

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Pendress
says: August 27, 2019 at 7:19 am
chikednessian

Hello there, i just came accross this tutorial. i was

wondering if I should be doing anything on the windows
system32 Hosts le under drivers.

i have a domain name, pointed the A records to my public

IP address given by my ISP, did the steps above, but no
matter what i get a forbidden screen. i can’t even access
the sub-directories on wamp64/www/.

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Fabio
says: April 24, 2020 at 1:19 pm
Polanco

Hello! I followed the steps (and it worked, there were no

errors) but i don’t know how to access to my website

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hsnyc says: April 24, 2020 at 3:58 pm

Hi Fabio, you would use your local ip address or if

accessing from outside your network you would
use your external IP address (make sure port
forwarding is con gured).

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