Accessing local Apache website from remote machine in same network

Question

This is my story.

I installed Apache in windows 7 and configured Virtual host. Below is my directory tree.

D:\
 Apache/
 PHP/
 MySQL/
 projects/

and virtual host configuration.

<VirtualHost stuff.dev>
    DocumentRoot "D:/projects/stuff"
    ServerName stuff.dev
    ServerAlias stuff.dev
    <Directory "D:/projects/stuff">
        AllowOverride All
        Require all granted
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

I also add host name in hosts file. I could accessed stuff.dev in local machine but I can't access from remote machine although I add host name in remote's hosts files.

When I access website from remote machine, It's always access to default host (htdocs/index.html).

How can I access local website from remote machine?

Answer 1

If you can access via localhost and not from your other computer, the issue is your Windows Firewall.... try to disable it or configure it to handle port 80

If Windows Firewall is disabled and still not working make sure you don't have any application (like Skype) that is conflicted with Apache port 80