: Can Instant WordPress be used on a network drive? I'm trying to put a site that I've just built onto my companies internal server so that everyone at the company can see the site and give

@Nimeshi995

Usually with Windows Server versions, ports 80 and 8080 are reserved for IIS (this is assuming you're using Windows Server 20XX. If you're not, and you're using Windows 7/8/8.1, the rest may be unnecessary). Your options for getting your WordPress install to work are either to install PHP for IIS and use the IIS manager to run your WordPress install (which can be a pain in the you-know-what to configure... from my experience, IIS doesn't like PHP very well, but that could have been improved over the last 10 years or so) or to redirect ports 80 and 8080 (as well as HTTPS port 443 and your SSL port, if necessary) to WAMP/XAMPP/Instant WordPress via the Windows Firewall.

The last option (and the one I use if I happen to be using a Windows server and need to build a test PHP environment) is a little more advanced. You would need to configure the apache server for WAMP/XAMPP/Instant WordPress to listen for a different port, such as 8081 (or any port number you choose, so long as it's not already being used by another program / protocol), and point port 8081 incoming and outgoing to Apache. Then you would access the site via localhost:8081/ or your.fqdn:8081/ or 192.168.1.199:8081/ (replace that IP with your server's IP). If you need to access your WP site outside of your subnet, you would also need to apply port forwarding to your server's IP in your router / DNS.

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