Cannot access xampp htdocs folder from another PC over same network, but can access phpmyadmin

Question

I have xampp installed on my PC. I can access xampp dashboard and PHPmyadmin by entering 192.168.xx on another computer over same network. But when I type in 192.168.xx/folder_name/ where folder_name is folder in htdocs it redirects to localhost/foder_name hence showing object not found error.

What is reason that it is redirecting to my ip to localhost on that computer?

Answer 1

1. check your firewall for any input with incoming on port 80 ( or for the test turn off firewall )

2. in xampp look for http.conf (configuraton file for apache)

look for something like that : order deny,allow deny from all allow from 127.0.0.1

remove "deny from all" and reload apache