How do I access my webserver on my stationary from my laptop?

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Published on 2011-06-13T07:57:19Z Indexed on 2012/03/23 23:31 UTC
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I'm running Apache on my stationary and I would like to access a website through my laptop.
This is some of the Apache config:

NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80

<VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80>
    ServerName mysite.com
    DocumentRoot I:/wamp/www/mysite/
</VirtualHost>

ServerName localhost:80

<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride all
    Order deny,allow
    Deny from all
</Directory>

On my laptop I've added the following to the HOSTS file:

10.0.0.3   mysite.com

But accessing the page through mysite.com is not very successfull. If I enter the IP address directly, I only get a Forbidden message.

What do I need to do in order to get this to work?

Update

I'm runing WAMPSERVER 2.1 (Apache 2.2.17)
Apache is up and running
I can ping 10.0.0.3 from laptop
I'm not able to ping http://mysite.com from laptop
IE gives me a 403 Forbidden -> The website declined to show this webpage

The only log that get's entries when trying to access the website from my laptop, is access.log.

access.log
10.0.0.4 - - [13/Jun/2011:10:14:04 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 403 202

apache_error.log
[Mon Jun 13 10:08:16 2011] [error] VirtualHost localhost:0 -- mixing * ports and non-* ports with a NameVirtualHost address is not supported, proceeding with undefined results

UPDATE 2
My apache config has the following entry:

AllowOverride all
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
Allow from 127.0.0.1

Could it be that this Allow from is stopping other computers accessing the page?

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