local webserver issue with wordpress

  • Having a pulling hair out moment…! please help

    I have setup a local webserver using xampp and have a few sites on there that use php and they work fine locally and externally for clients to see site progression. Yet when i install wordpress it works fine internally (https://localhost) yet when any of the wordpress php files are viewed exteernally it just returns a “page cannot be displayed” error message.

    If i point it to the wordpress readme.html file that displays perfectly but none of the php files…

    I’m baffled by this and really would appreciate any advice

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  • What advice do you need… besides looking at the admin > Settings > General page and take a long look at the two URL values. Are they “localhost”? Yes, they are. And those are stored in the database.

    Any machine in the world will “think” of localhost as themselves…

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