Now it is accessible around the network using the IP address of the web server. Start the web server on system-1 and the put web app in side the server’s recommended directory(mentioned in the installation posts given above). Now the other systems connected to the same network are able to access the web root directory of server using web browser, when server is online. Here in this configuration System-1 has Web server installed it can be any web server stack application out of available in market and as above mentioned WAMP and XAMPP are most popular ones and System 2 to 4 are in network with it using a WiFi router(or it will work same with LAN too). Suppose there is a network of 4 systems has given configuration. When a web server is installed on a computer system, system starts acting like a web server to all the other computers in network with when offline and to all the systems of world when online that is web server not only accepts local network requests, it can respond to the internet requests too. So, how to deploy PHP web apps offline on a network? WAMP, a windows based apache, MySQL and PHP based web server and XAMPP, a cross platform based apache, MariaDB, PHP and Pearl based web server available for Windows, Linux and Mac. Web server stacks are a combination of softwares or applications in a single package to perform a particular task on web. Web server stacks are used for offline web production and testing or local hosting. The most popular web server as of now is Apache, an open source product of The Apache Software Foundation followed by IIS, a product of microsoft and Nginx by nginx inc. So, Web Server is a computer program or application that accepts all the requests from clients, process them and responds back to them in the form of web pages. Generally the web apps are deployed online for all the internet users using web server by opting to any of the web service providers like GoDaddy, BigRock, Hostgator etc.īut here in this post we will discuss and setup a web app on a offline web server and make it available on network either using LAN(Local Area Network) or WiFi.
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