XP Home and Web Server?

[Andrej]

I have a problem with my XP home box which is probably easy to solve.

May be one of you can tell me how to access a free web server
(apache)installed on XP Home. I have apache running on my XP Home
laptop and I can locally connect to it. But if I try to connect from
another machine it always fails. The very same problem some times
comes up with netmeeting which gave me the impression XP Home can not
be used as a server. Is this right?

Regards
Andrej

 

[allan grossman [ms-mvp]]

Hi, Andrej -

XP Home can run Apache but is limited to five incoming
connections. If you can't connect across a network I'd
start looking for a webserver configuration or firewall
issue - either on the XP machine or at your ISP.

hth -