How to install PHP intranet at work?

[Tropical Dream]

Hi everyone,

I would like to install a basic PHP Intranet at work with a MySQL Database.

I managed to install the website on the main Server (Windows Server 2008),

I can access the website via "http://localhost/" and "http://127.0.0.1"

but I can't access this website from my other work computers on the same network.

All my company computers are connected through a LAN network.

How can I make the website accessible to all computers connected to the network?

Thanks

[Rudy]

Are you using IIS or Apache?

[hjf288]

Is your webserver listening on the correct IP with the port available?

[WAR-DOG]

You need to asign a Host header to the website, so the server knows to what host header to listen to and to which site to redirect. You can host multiple sites on one server and with Host headers you determine which site to load on which url

example: http://192.168.1.10/ or http://intranet.companydomain.com/

[Tropical Dream]

I'm using Apache on XAMPP (but I can use IIS if you think it'll be easier)

Can you give me more details about the "Host header"... I don't know what it means

I tried to access the IP of of the server http://192.168.1.10/

but I receive a 404 page error

It's because of this error that I ask for your help

[hjf288]

ServerName directive in Apache.conf

Basically the systems hostname..

[WAR-DOG]

Host header is in IIS, don't know about apache, it's somewhere in the httpd.conf as far as I can remember... and it's probably called virtualhost

[sbauer]

Remove XAMPP from the production server. Just use IIS. PHP + IIS is fine. http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform/phponwindows.aspx

[Tropical Dream]

  sbauer said:

Remove XAMPP from the production server. Just use IIS. PHP + IIS is fine. http://www.microsoft.com/web/platform/phponwindows.aspx

IIS + PHP will be easier to share on the internal server than using XAMPP?

This link you provided me is excellent!! :)

[sbauer]

  Tropical Dream said:

IIS + PHP will be easier to share on the internal server than using XAMPP?

This link you provided me is excellent!! :)

Yes. XAMPP on a production server is not acceptable. It's fine if you need something quick and dirty on your development machine, but you need to know how to maintain and manage Apache, PHP, mods, database (mysql), and security, individually when working in a production environment. Over the course of the machine's lifetime, something will break, and you'll need to know how to support it.

IIS 7 (the version on Windows Server 2008) is very powerful. Microsoft has worked with the PHP project directly to make sure PHP works well under IIS 7.

[Tropical Dream]

I managed to install on Windows Server 2008 MySQL, PHP, phpMyAdmin on IIS7.

It took me 2 days to get it to work (I'm a newbie) but now it's all working fine.

Thanks for your help guys.