Works fine on the hosting computer, but not on another computer?

  • dijisam949

    (@dijisam949)


    9 years, 10 months ago

    I have recently been interested in creating a personal intranet for my house and I decided to use WordPress to create the website rather than building one from scratch.

    So, I set everything up, configured the website and customized everything, including the theme; however, I went to test it on a separate computer to see if it worked. It did to an extent, however all it showed was everything as if it had no theme. Here are screenshots to show what I mean:

    The hosting computer connecting to the intranet: http://prntscr.com/3xbhwd
    The separate computer connecting to the intranet: http://prntscr.com/3xbhe1

    The program I use to host the server is XAMPP however I have tried running the intranet on WAMP however this issue is still unsovled…

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  • Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    If you use ‘localhost’ in your WordPress addresses, it won’t work from the LAN. Only from the computer it’s installed on.

    Thread Starter dijisam949

    (@dijisam949)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    I know this, hence why I don’t just get a blank page. I connect via the hosting computer’s IP.

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    I know this, hence why I don’t just get a blank page.

    Not necessarily true.

    Just because you can connect to the machine from your lan using the machines private internal ip address (ex: 192.168.x.x/wordpress) does not mean everything is going to work for WordPress.

    While you still may be able to see the site front page by using 192.168.x.x to connect, the lack of style as depicted in your screenshot, is typical example of having ‘localhost’ or ‘127.0.0.1’ in your WordPress URLS in your dashboard, and will usually result in 404 errors and – or – incomplete rendering (no formatting) when you try to navigate away from the page on a different computer.

    So, just to be absolutely clear before you do any additional troubleshooting; do you or do you not have the word ‘localhost’ in your WordPress URL’s in your dashboard settings?

    Reference: Dashboard > General Settings > WordPress Address

    Thread Starter dijisam949

    (@dijisam949)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    My mistake, I do have this in WordPress Adress URL – ‘http://localhost’. I have changed it to my computers internal ip. Thanks, and sorry 🙂

    Clayton James

    (@claytonjames)

    9 years, 10 months ago

    No problem.. it’s a pretty easy thing to overlook!

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