WordPress Deployment – Lose Formatting

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    (@dcss)


    14 years, 7 months ago

    I am using nginx, PHP 5.2.12-WIN32 and MySQL 5.1.45-Wwin32 on my Windows XP workstation to test WordPress and see how it can help us. There are no problems running it local. However, if I try accessing it from another computer in the office, I get an unformatted first screen and none of the links work.

    I am sure I am missing something simple but can’t figure out what. BTW I am new to setting up a server and am following the instructions I am finding in the forums.

    Any suggestion will be much appreciated.

    Thanx in advance.

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  • How are you trying to access it from other PC? Is both the computers connected via network?

    Thread Starter DCSS

    (@dcss)

    Both computers are on the same network 20 feet apart. I know they communicate because I do get the WP screen with no formatting other than basic HTML and the links do not work. I just do not know where to go to fix this.

    I access the my workstation (the server running nginx) from the other workstation by using the following url with IE

    https://ServerIPAddress/localhost/index.php

    Thanx for your response.

    You can’t use a site url based on “localhost” and then expect it to work via another machine. Every machine thinks it is “localhost”

    Thread Starter DCSS

    (@dcss)

    Thanx esmi, thought of that. Tried https://ServerIPAddress/index.php but get the same result.

    I get the WP page but without formatting and the links do not work. It is not finding the files it needs (css, links, etc.) on the server. I am not sure why nor how to fix it.

    Thanx again for your response.

    Thread Starter DCSS

    (@dcss)

    Thanx to your input I think I figured out what I did wrong. The only thing that is perplexing is that everything comes up correctly now on the user machine but for some reason, the images do not come up because WP is still looking for them on localhost. I changed the general settings to look based on the ServerIPAddress instead of locahost which is the way I had it. All works well except where it goes to find the images.

    I will look through the forum and documentation to see if this is addressed. I may be back for an answer, however.

    Thanx again!!

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