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edfearon's avatar

Internal Network Hosting

I'm developing a laravel app using Homestead under Windows. The app is for a school and when it's ready, I want to host it on the internal network so that staff can access it on site but not on the web.

Does anyone have any suggestions for how I would approach running a production server for this purpose on a Windows network? Would I just use Homestead again, or WAMP or something else? I'm a teacher rather than IT staff, so I'm trying to find what I need to ask the IT folks to provide.

Many thanks for any suggestions.

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bashy's avatar

If you want to network it from Homestead, you should be able to connect to it if you setup a link people can visit. Normally port 8000 externally but you can network port 80 to 8000 for a certain machine/IP so that you don't need the port.

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