wordpress not loading properly

  • pedenski

    (@pedenski)


    11 years, 9 months ago

    hi guys,

    I have a school project and was tasked to create a simple wordpress website.

    I installed XAMPP and placed the wordpress folder inside htdocs, then created database,etc, etc..

    so, in short. i manage to make it work, and it runs smoothly on the localhost.
    I then decided to access the website on a different host (computer).

    when viewing on different host, the wordpress page does not load properly. no images, no website structure, it only loads the content which is weird.

    i disabled firewall on both PC. hope you can help me analyze the problem. thanks

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  • michael.mariart

    (@michaelmariart)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    This is probaly one of the most common “issues” with moving WordPress.

    The “problem” is that the database stores all of the file associations as hard-coded links to the sites URL. Chaing the domain in your admin area only changes it for the permalinks, not for any content that’s alreayd in your site.

    The best tool that I’ve found for fxing this can be found here. Follow the instructions and it will get everything pointing to where it should be.

    Thread Starter pedenski

    (@pedenski)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    hi, thanks for the link..
    but im not much of a techie here. after i placed the .php file inside the root folder, im not sure what goes for the “search for” and the “replace wwith”

    btw this site is for internal use only. do i replace the localhost with the IP of the PC?

    michael.mariart

    (@michaelmariart)

    11 years, 9 months ago

    “Search For” – the old domain name eg: “http://localhost”

    “Replace With” – Whatever domain/IP/etc you are going ot use with your live site.

    If it’s internal and you’re going ot be dunning it from an IP address, then it would be something like “http://123.12.21.123” – Remember to always have the http:// in front of it.

    Thread Starter pedenski

    (@pedenski)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    thanks this works!

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