Make a Server Out Of An Old PC

Step 4 Start it up!

To start XAMPP, go to Terminal and login as the system administrator root:

/opt/lampp/lampp start

You should see something that looks like this:

Starting XAMPP 1.6.3a...LAMPP: Starting Apache...LAMPP: Starting MySQL...LAMPP started.

Now to test the server! Type this into your web browser:

http://localhost

or

http://yourlocalip:port

Obviously replacing "yourlocalip" with your local IP address and replacing "port" with which port is forwarded for XAMPP. For example:

http://123.456.789.000:1234

IF YOU ARE USING A ROUTER, YOU MUST FORWARD THE PORTS ASSIGNED BY APACHE!

In the httpd.conf file in /opt/lampp/etc, you will find information and settings for the IP and ports. Find the info, and change it to the appropriate values and settings for your network.

Comments

[harry599]

whaen you have to insert your local ip, is that the computers ip or the routers ip, because i dont have a static ip on my router so how would i get by that? Thanks Harry

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type in http://localhost/ to see your site.