Searched several threads and I'm still having issues. I've tethered my laptop to my mobile phone and I'm using the data on it. I checked the IP address assigned to my laptop and made sure I'm using it, set up the apache webserver to listen on a port (no IP specified). And I can't connect from my mobile phone to my laptop web server.
Using localhost in laptop web browser works but it won't work if I use the IP specified by the android device after I tether. Also can't connect to laptop webserver from phone's mobile browser either.
Why can't I connect to my local webserver on my laptop from my mobile phone?
I've tethered both with USB and mobile hotspot and successfully shared the internet connection, but using ipconfig from the command prompt in windows I never can connect using that IP http://:3128/ 3128 is the port I have apache listening on (because I had IIS before too). Never works.