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Answer : Localhost is just a name given for the loopback, eg its like referring to yourself as "me" .. To view it from other computers, chances are you need only do http://192.168.1.56 or http://myPcsName if that doesnt work, there is a chance that there is a firewall running on your computer, or the httpd.conf is only listening on 127.0.0.1 Thanks for a detailed explanation. Just to Elaborate, in Windows, Go to Control Panel -> Firewall, in exceptions "add http and port 80". Then in Services check mark "http (web server port 80)" and "https (web server port 443)" ONLY if you need https to work also. Ok, OK, Close Then go to any computer on network and type http://computer-name (where you change the firewall and has the xampp running on it) in your web browser and happy days :) it's very easy Go to Your XAMPP Control panel Click on apache > config > Apache (httpd.conf) Search for Listen 80 and replace with Listen 8...

Answer : Okay: This is what I did now and it's solved: My httpd-vhosts.conf looks like this now: <VirtualHost dropbox.local:80> DocumentRoot "E:/Documenten/Dropbox/Dropbox/dummy-htdocs" ServerName dropbox.local ErrorLog "logs/dropbox.local-error.log" CustomLog "logs/dropbox.local-access.log" combined <Directory "E:/Documenten/Dropbox/Dropbox/dummy-htdocs"> # AllowOverride All # Deprecated # Order Allow,Deny # Deprecated # Allow from all # Deprecated # --New way of doing it Require all granted </Directory> </VirtualHost> First, I saw that it's necessary to have set the <Directory xx:xx> options. So I put the <Directory > [..] </Directory> -part INSIDE the <VirtualHost > [..] </VirtualHost> . After that, I added AllowOverride AuthConfig Indexes to the <Directory> options. Now htt...