oZestretch

I have been searching google for over an hour and a half... could not find the total result i was searching for... one of the forums google sent me too had an admin guru tell me to google what i wanted and not be spoon fed.... was curious why he chose to offer help on forums if his generic answer is 'what did google say' and then to only find out that their web site gets high rank on google... and they say google isnt biased

anyways, the issue v solution:

i have installed xampp on on one pc on my home network... all set up and working great... enter pc#2 on the network, i wished to have no restrictions on which pc i needed to be on to access both xampp docs, and the sites themselves.

The Docs:
Is a simple matter of making that hard drive, or specific folder structure available across your network. XP navigatte to your folder or HDD.
'My Computer>right click the HDD or if its a folder on the HDD, navigate the HDD untill you come to the folder you want shared and right click it, select 'sharing and security' then click 'if you understand the risk but still want.... blahh blahh' then select the check box 'share this folder on the network' & 'allow network users to change my files'. - Apply

you can now access all your sites from any pc on the network and edit as you wish...

The Sites:
This part wont take too long, but if you have manyyyy pc's you want to have this option... ask google if there is an easier way, otherwise, the following will work, but is gonna take you a while
Part1 - xampp apache setting
lets start with the PC xampp is installed on,
Open 'C:\xampp\apache\conf\extra\httpd-vhosts.conf'
if you have already altered this file, then make the adjustments for IP only.
chances are it looks like this


i changed mine like this

2nd namevirtualhost is the network IP of the xampp pc.

next i have the site settings, use the relative paths for your sites location

you may have many more of these, i just use the 2 for the example.

Part2 - win hosts setting
staying with the xampp pc for now,
Open 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts' - use notepad/wordpad
you will probably have something like

edit for:

remember the 192.168.1.12 i used, should be the network IP of your xampp pc

ok, now stand up and stretch your legs as you make your way to the 2nd pc...
Open 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc\hosts' - use notepad/wordpad
you will probably have something like

edit for:

remember the 192.168.1.12 i used, should be the network IP of your xampp pc

if you have more machines, then go do the last step on them too.

to access xampp from the non xampp machine
http://xxx.localhost - can be same url for the xampp machine, but http://localhost will work on the xampp machine also.

access sites:
http://xxx.ozestretch.com
http://xxx.site2.com

hope it goes well.