In Options > General you set 2 URIs, those define where your blog is.
If it is set to local – it cannot be on the internet: every machine that accesses it will “think” of ‘localhost’ as themselves 🙂
maybe you can put the ip of your machine .
when u run apache you can access (sometime you have to do some modifications) http//your-ip
if u put this in your wordpress control panel (what moshu told you ) it might work .
On WinXP you can also use the name of your workstation instead of localhost. By that you are able to access your local webserver from every Windows workstation inside your LAN.
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Replacing the ip address for the localhost in the Options > General worked (e.g. http//your-ip/WPname instead of http//localhost/WPname), Thanks All.
Next, since the router is a dhcp server and randomly (dynamically) assigns the internal local ip address which can change at any time (e.g. on router reboot after reconfiguration of network machines and/or other hardware), which would be the best approach to solving this part of the configuration? Options:
1. Through ip based virtualhost in the Apache httpd configuration file, e.g.
#NameVirtualHost 192.168.1.XX
#<VirtualHost 192.168.1.xx>
ServerName Whatever
DocumentRoot C:/WhereverApacheResides/htdocs
#</VirtualHost>
or
2. Through name based virtualhost in the Apache httpd configuration file, e.g.
#NameVirtualHost *:80
#<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerName Whatever
DocumentRoot C:/WhereverApacheResides/htdocs
#</VirtualHost>
or
3. Some other solution?
Note: Directives commented out, just in case!!! For use they would need to be uncommented. (For other users getting started).
Again, Thanks in Advance
How to set up a server is beyond the scope of the WP Forum. You could probably get better support for that in places that are specialized in server issues.
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perra
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Thanks Moshu for the previous help tips.
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Solution:
These next pages provided a solution that worked for me in setting up virtual hosts. The last page includes a specific solution for WP. Hope it can help someone.
Virtual hosting and PHP for local develpment
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about405.html
Apache Webserver :: MySQL etc.
http://techpatterns.com/forums/forum-17.html
Apache 2.0.50,PHP 4.3.8,mod_rewrite and WordPress 1.5????
http://techpatterns.com/forums/about376.html
Thanks for posting back the solution.
However, for the not-so-techie users I’d still recommend the installation of XAMPP for local development.
Thank you to you all, i was having problems with my localhost server and was searching for a simple easy to understand solution without luck, that is until i found this post in my search engine followed what moshu said about Options > general….realised my localhost port was blocked clicked a box and hey presto working perfectly(Shame i didnt find it 3 months ago) so i joined the site. Thanks again for a very helpful straight forward post 🙂
Mick
