IPCONFIG states
IP Address is 192.168.0.3
Default gateway is 192.168.0.2
DHCP Server is 192.168.0.2
DNS server is 192.168.0.2
http://localhost/index.html still works but with the ip number says cannot find server now!
Ty 4 the posts any further help appreciated
I believe that 192.168.0.2 is a reserved IP address that points towards localhost. Everyone's computer has that built into it. Is your computer connected to the internet?
This is not my area of expertise but I think you're missing something somewhere....
yes my computer is connected to the internet via a lan port.
But it is fairly recent connection and the IPConfig IP number hasnt worked for a while now
The IP you have there is reserved for internal networks only.
You should be able to access the http server by either
A: http://localhost/index.php
B: [url]http://IP~ADDRESS[/url] HERE/index.php
You can only access the http server if your on the internal side of the network.
If you want to connect from the Outside (The world) then you need to setup port forwarding on your router/server to port 80 on the Http server
HTH
localhost is an alias for the tcp loopback address 127.0.0.1
If you are saying http://192.168.0.3 doesn't work in your browser, check for any firewall software on your computer or the web server that might be blocking access.
192.168.x.x are "non-routable" ip addresses for internal LAN's, addresses in this range are not accessible from the Internet.
It appears your router address is 192.168.0.2 The addresses you listed should work as long as your router does dns forwarding.
If your problem is accessing your website from another location, perhaps you haven't forwarded external traffic on port 80 to your webserver's LAN ip. This is something you do in the router configuration and setup.
One last potential problem from the "outside" is that many cable/dsl ISP's are blocking port 80 so you can't run an external webserver on their broadband bandwidth.