I know there are some EasyPHP fans out there, so I am hoping someone has had this problem already.

So I setup EasyPHP, loaded some web pages and set up a DB. It works great locally, but I cannot view it from another machine; i.e. when I go to the computer's IP address it does not work.

I performed a ShieldsUP scan and confirmed that port 80 is open. However, if I enter the machines public IP address or the FQDN it does not resolve; I get a connection refused by host in FF.

Granted I know that EasyPHP is not a production class web server, but for what I need it for it will do. Also, I am running it on Windows XP, which I believe limits web connections, also, to 10 concurrent connections; which I doubt I will have. This I will test, unless someone is aware of an answer.

So, how do I make my web server publicly available to anyone, preferably limited to just our subnet? Also note that this machine has a static IP. Any suggestions?

Thanks,

are you behind a router?

Yeah, I think that is the problem. As I don't have access to the routers I put in a call and they said they would unblock it accordingly. That was easy.

Leo, do you know if XP only allows 10 concurrent web users? Also, how might I be able to configure a timeout and disconnect users from the web server?

yeah the limit is 10 users but that is for IIs, i don't know if it's a global connections limit which would affect apache also?

yeah then the router is the issue, they would need to forward ports 80 and 8080 but i imagine they've already done that

Ok, I just found out that port 80 is allowed at the router level but I still cannot connect to the computer via web. Any other suggestions?

Solution:

In the <Directory "${path}/phpmyadmin">
<Directory "${path}/home">
Delete or comment out deny from all

well found Jay