Title: I’m missing something important.
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# I’m missing something important.

 *  [charlessuggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlessuggs/)
 * (@charlessuggs)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-missing-something-important/)
 * Please go take a look at my blog.
 * [http://ccs-ams.com/blog](http://ccs-ams.com/blog)
 * What you will probably see is text.
 * This is a new installation of WP 1.5
    Mac OSX 10.3.8 MySQL 4.0.24 php 5.0.3
 * Why do none of the visual aspects of WP show?

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 *  [davestinner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davestinner/)
 * (@davestinner)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-missing-something-important/#post-166295)
 * That link doesn’t work for me. It wants to redirect me to [http://www.charles-suggs-computer.local](http://www.charles-suggs-computer.local)
 *  Thread Starter [charlessuggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlessuggs/)
 * (@charlessuggs)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-missing-something-important/#post-166301)
 * I left out two salient points. I am self hosted, and when I view my blog at localhost,
   all of the visuals show.
 * In re to the second post in this thread-
 * That is odd. If I type that address into Safari, it redirects me to where you
   were redirected. If, on the otherhand, I surf to that address using a back-up
   ISP I get to it and only see text. If I override the .local address and force
   the ccs-ams address I see WP in all of its glory.
 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-missing-something-important/#post-166304)
 * [http://maczealots.com/tutorials/wordpress/](http://maczealots.com/tutorials/wordpress/)?
 *  Thread Starter [charlessuggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlessuggs/)
 * (@charlessuggs)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-missing-something-important/#post-166323)
 * Thanks for the link to the tutorial. That is the one I used to install my first
   WP blog. I did virtually the same thing using phpMyAdmin this time, then I went
   back and installed through the terminal and now back to phpMyAdmin.
 * WP works, it connects to the database, I can view it on localhost with no problems.
 * If I surf in from another account, I only see the text for the titles, posts,
   and so forth. I am really frustrated because I have reinstalled WP six times,
   installed an older version of MySql. re-created the database a dozen times. Of
   course the problem is if you have repeated an error two or three times it becomes
   part of the process.
 * The key is, WP works fine on localhost. From the outside I get the correct text
   but no formatting. If the directories were wrong I couldn’t get the text.
 *  Thread Starter [charlessuggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlessuggs/)
 * (@charlessuggs)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-missing-something-important/#post-166325)
 * Try this link:
 * [http://ccs-ams.com/blog/](http://ccs-ams.com/blog/)
 * I know it looks the same but I am entering it from my alternate location.
 *  [vkaryl](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vkaryl/)
 * (@vkaryl)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-missing-something-important/#post-166326)
 * Are you absolutely sure that your <link> info to the stylesheet is correct?
 * Viewing your link through FF, with Dev Toolbar enabled, there’s no external stylesheet
   at all…. just a few inline styles….
 *  Thread Starter [charlessuggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlessuggs/)
 * (@charlessuggs)
 * [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-missing-something-important/#post-166329)
 * Thanks, got it, I needed to change the blog URI under options. It works fine 
   now, though I’m not sure where that spurious redirect comes from. Thanks all.

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 * Last reply from: [charlessuggs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/charlessuggs/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/im-missing-something-important/#post-166329)
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