Your blog address in your dashboard is “localhost”. This is from your source code.
//localhost/wordpress/
That makes it essentially unavailable to the outside world. It will work only on the machine you installed it on unless you change the addresses to reflect a domain or IP address available to everyone.
Strange, you tried my ip address? because I entered that into a computer 13 miles from my home computer to see if it worked and everything worked fine, besides the fact of having no visible template and only text.
but here, too make it simple I set up a dns
http://techtips.blogsite.org
97.97.1.254/wordpress
That is what i typed in the address bar. As of this moment, I can still reach it. Here is a snippet of your source code. (links intentionally broken)
<link rel="stylesheet" href=//localhost/wordpress/wp-content/themes/default/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="Tech Tips RSS Feed" href=//localhost/wordpress/?feed=rss2" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Tech Tips Atom Feed" href=//localhost/wordpress/?feed=atom" />
<link rel="pingback" href=//localhost/wordpress/xmlrpc.php" />
this link: //techtips.blogsite.org/ loads identically, but with no style sheet. Your addresses in the dashboard need to reflect your blogsite.org address, rather than “localhost”.
Until you enter your dyndns domain (or whatever no-ip service you choose) name (ie //www.mydomain.dyndns.com) or whatever it is going to be, your style sheet won’t load.
I entered that into a computer 13 miles from my home computer to see if it worked and everything worked fine,
It’s not working fine. It can’t find the theme files.
besides the fact of having no visible template and only text
And the reason is, you have “localhost for an address to your wordpress blog.
ok i understand now. so can you tell me how i can change those? and should i change them to http://techtips.blogsite.org? thanks for your time
Exactly. login, settings > general >
Substituting “techtips.blogsite.org” for the word “localhost” should do it I would think.
[EDIT] …and possibly a permalink refresh as well, after the change. I can’t say for sure on that.
hmm. ok i tried, and if i enter in anything besides localhost then it comes up 404 error page not found
I just tried it from here again. It works perfectly for the outside world now… default Kubrick theme and all!! You are up and running!
You can no longer access it from the computer browser that it is installed on, because it’s address is no longer “localhost”. If you must access it from the server, research how to add the blog address to your hosts file, That will allow your blogsite.org address to resolve to 127.0.0.1 (localhost) from the machine it is being served from.
Glad to see you got it working! Best wishes.
Thanks ^^ i really appreciate it
