How can I put my WAMP online for someone to access?

Another option is simply using a tunnelling service like:

• pagekite.net
• forwardhq.com
• progrium.com/localtunnel/

Localtunnel is open source, while the others require you to pay a small monthly fee after a trial period.

If your Apache server is up and running already on your localhost, then you should just be able to set up a route within your router to point at your computer for traffic coming IN on port 80.

EDIT: I just checked my router settings, and it calls this 'services'. It allows incoming requests on a specific port to be listened to, and forwards the request onto a specific computer (by IP) attached to the router.

You would be better asking this question on superuser.com

This works very easily for me on WinXP.

• Fire up the command prompt and enter ipconfig /all - get your local IP address
• Log into your router and set up port forwarding to forward HTTP to your local IP address
• Click on your WAMP icon and click again on "Put Online"
• Go to your remote IP (you can find it somewhere like http://www.whatsmyip.org/)

To allow external connections to your server you have to restart WAMP in online mode.

Left-click the WAMP icon and select Put Online.

Wait for the icon status to change to white again.

Enter your IP into your web browser bar and hit enter.

If you get the same forbidden page as before hit F5 to let the browser load the newest version.

If it's still not working you probably have to enable port 80 forwarding in your router configuration.

Finally your buddy can see your homepage!