[Metallica]

Hi everyone,

This is probably some simple detail I have overlooked, but I'm about to give up.

I have installed Windows 2003 and XAMPP on an old server for a friend of mine who wanted to have his own webserver.
Everything went reasonably well and the website I put up works on the server itself.

But ... when I connect to the server from another machine in my network (using the IP of the server) the index file loads, but all the images, stylesheet etc, which are in subfolders do not load.
I looked at the source and all the links look like this:
http://127.0.0.1/images/front.jpg etc.
That explains why the server can find them and my computer doesn't, but what have I done wrong?

I have edited httpd.conf in two places to point to the correct folder (should have worked because it finds the index file)

For giggles I switched from Apache to IIS and I get a Bad request (Invalid Hostname) reply when I try to connect.

The FileZilla connection for ftp works brilliant.

If you need any more information to help, please ask. I wanted to finish this project yesterday.

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Have you checked to make sure the hyperlinks in each page are linking to files with a relative path and not with an actual http:// address.

I'll use an example as I couldn't think how to word that.

Example

I'll say the below is the contents of your directory.



and the image folder....




To link to the image in the index file you would have this: -

<img src="/images/front.jpg">

What I think you have done is entered the URL as: -

<img src="http://127.0.0.1/ima...ges/front.jpg">


Obviously, as you know if you try and connect to 127.0.0.1 it's gonna come back to your machine, which won't respond since you don't have Apache

Let me know if that's confusing, 'cos I struggled to explain that well

[Fatheed]

Have you checked to make sure the hyperlinks in each page are linking to files with a relative path and not with an actual http:// address.

I'll use an example as I couldn't think how to word that.

Example

I'll say the below is the contents of your directory.



and the image folder....




To link to the image in the index file you would have this: -

<img src="/images/front.jpg">

What I think you have done is entered the URL as: -

<img src="http://127.0.0.1/ima...ges/front.jpg">


Obviously, as you know if you try and connect to 127.0.0.1 it's gonna come back to your machine, which won't respond since you don't have Apache

Let me know if that's confusing, 'cos I struggled to explain that well

[Metallica]

Hi Fatheed,

I understood what you meant and had checked that.

The site is based on a Wordpress blog.
The paths are coded in php like this:
<img src="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/images/front.jpg">

So I guess the good news is there might be one central place where I can change it.
Someone was so kind to give me a link to this:
http://codex.wordpre...dress_.28URL.29
I will try that tonight and keep you all posted.

[Fatheed]

In that case, I think I know the problem.

When it was installed the IP was entered as Localhost, so if it's changed to his actual IP it should work fine

[Metallica]

Hi Fatheed,

You mean during the XAMPP install?

Do you happen to know where I can change that?

[Fatheed]

No, XAMPP is just waiting for any incoming connections on the Apache port.

You mentioned <img src="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>/images/front.jpg">

bloginfo('url') will refer to WP_HOME in the config.

If WP_HOME is set as 127.0.0.1 instead of the actual I.P. address of the machine, the images will attempt to load from your own machine

If that made sense

[Metallica]

Changed in wp-config.php:

define('WP_HOME', 'http://www.example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://www.example.com');

and in my hosts file

192.168.2.4 www.example.com

That works!! Thanks to all that helped.
Now get the server to keep the connection open and I should be good to go, but that's another story.

[Fatheed]

Your Welcome!

Merry Christmas!