如何从网络上的其他计算机访问本地WordPress安装

Question

I have XAMPP running fine on one machine and I have 2 WordPress installs running fine on that machine. I would like to be able to access and work on those WordPress installs on other machines on my network.

Right now, I have it set so that if I try to access those directories from another computer on the network, all I get is either the XAMPP splash screen, or a 404 error if I try to access specific folders.

I've researched this and researched this and I have found numerous posts about how to do this.... but only in bits and pieces.

Does anyone know of a step by step, start to finish, guide of how to do this? In layman's terms?

Remote (from another network) would be great too. But I'll cross that bridge once I figure this out.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I would suggest rather than shared folders you use an FTP client / server - I use Filezilla server and client for my local sandbox testing server. This will give you additional info like file and folder groups and permissions.

Got to ask the question what OS? have you opened port 80 on the server machine?

Things like this can also occur on Linux if the folders and files do not have the correct groups for access and or permissions.

chown -R apache:apache /var/www/html

the above if on linux will assign all the folders and files to be accessed by the apache process. not having the correct groups assigned can give you 404 when you know the files are actually there.

also check the file and folder permissions,

different files and directories have permissions that specify who and what can read, write, modify and access them - this wordpress page gives a good overview of permissions http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions

edit ps to access then from other networks all you will have to do is forward ports from your router to your internal server then your ftp and www services will be accessable from the outside world. I would suggest using a .htpass htaccess password to protect your services at this point.