Virutal PC & CSS

  • Stuntbox

    (@stuntbox)


    21 years, 2 months ago

    I’m running WordPress on my localhost machine (Mac OS X v10.3.8) while I tinker with it, and for the most part everything is running splendidly.

    However, when I fire up Virtual PC (Windows XP) and point IE or Firefox to my machine’s IP I get my site without any styles – just text and HTML structure. It’s also the same case for an older copy of WordPress I still have.

    Any ideas? Is this a relative/absolute path issue?

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  • jinsan

    (@jinsan)

    21 years, 2 months ago

    hmm what’s the site, perhaps if someone else views it who isn’t hosting it in IE they might find it displays correctly?

    Thread Starter Stuntbox

    (@stuntbox)

    21 years, 2 months ago

    Unfortunately, right now it’s only on my localhost. That’s where Virtual PC comes into play – a way to test the site on both platforms + mutliple browsers before I make a site live.

    Are there any well-known circumstances under which a stylesheet in WordPress woudln’t get fed to the client? Maybe Virtual PC is triggering one of these scenarios somehow.

    fuzzy_logic

    (@fuzzy_logic)

    21 years, 2 months ago

    Under your options, change your WordPress path from http://localhost/ to http://your-ip-address. That should work.

    michaelc

    (@michaelc)

    21 years, 2 months ago

    I use VPC also (we Mac people have the unfortunate problem of all our Web browsers are standards-compliant). It does have a bit of a problem properly resolving localhost.

    For people like me who’ve configured Apache to use virtual hosts (to work with multiple domains), it doesn’t seem to work at all.

    Thread Starter Stuntbox

    (@stuntbox)

    21 years, 2 months ago

    Bingo! Thanks fuzzy_logic. Changed my WordPress address under “Options” to be my IP instead of “localhost” and that worked like a charm. Now if only getting IE to display CSS correctly were that easy…

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