Remote access to localhost does not show css

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Remote access to localhost does not show css

Postby Willbe90 » 24. March 2011 19:25

So I have installed xampp and uploaded my website template on to my localhost server. I can view the website on my computer, but when I try to access it from another computer (a friends mac- chrome and on safari) it shows the basic html. No images are shown, No CSS style is shown. The website shows veritcally. I am somewhat of a networking newbie. If it works fine for me, but they cannot see the website as I do, what could be the issue? They are trying to log into my IP address with http://ipaddress/namegivenforsite/

not sure if there are security precautions set in place to prevent "remote" access, or if it is just an issue using macs to access the site.

any help would be great! thanks
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Re: Remote access to localhost does not show css

Postby Altrea » 24. March 2011 19:39

how does your css/image path look like?
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Re: Remote access to localhost does not show css

Postby Willbe90 » 24. March 2011 19:50

not exactly sure what you are asking....
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Re: Remote access to localhost does not show css

Postby Altrea » 24. March 2011 20:15

You say no css style is shown. So i think you have included an external css file.
Your images are external files too.

If you show us your sourcecode (especially how you have included your images and css files) we can say more about whats wrong.
Very common your paths only fits for your local system.
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Re: Remote access to localhost does not show css

Postby Willbe90 » 24. March 2011 20:27

Well here's what I did. I copy and pasted the page source, when accessing the site from my localhost. Not exactly sure if this is what you wanted. I moved the entire template folder into the htdocs folder inside the xampp folder.



<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr" lang="en-US">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/11">
<title>
localpmc-
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<meta name="description" content="Just another WordPress site" />
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<link rel="pingback" href="http://localpmc/wordpress/xmlrpc.php" />
<meta name='robots' content='noindex,nofollow' />
<link rel="EditURI" type="application/rsd+xml" title="RSD" href="http://localpmc/wordpress/xmlrpc.php?rsd" />
<link rel="wlwmanifest" type="application/wlwmanifest+xml" href="http://localpmc/wordpress/wp-includes/wlwmanifest.xml" />
<link rel='index' title='localpmc' href='http://localpmc/wordpress' />
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress 3.1" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localpmc/wordpress/wp-content/themes/luxury/luxury/style.css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localpmc/wordpress/wp-content/themes/luxury/luxury/coin-slider-styles.css" media="screen" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localpmc/wordpress/wp-content/themes/luxury/luxury/menusm.css" media="screen" />

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localpmc/wordpress/wp-content/themes/luxury/luxury/pagenavi-css.css" media="screen" />

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<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localpmc/wordpress/wp-content/themes/luxury/luxury/js/Script_font.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localpmc/wordpress/wp-content/themes/luxury/luxury/js/jquery-1.4.2.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://localpmc/wordpress/wp-content/themes/luxury/luxury/js/jquery.cycle.all.min.js"></script>
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Re: Remote access to localhost does not show css

Postby marcoscf » 25. March 2011 15:08

The problem is you are using absolute urls in all of your links and includes. You are including your host name "localpmc" in the urls, and this would only be accessible from your own pc, or within your local LAN (if you have one and it is correctly configured). If you try to ping "localpmc" from your friend's mac, you probably won't get an answer.

You should change them to relative urls, for example change:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localpmc/wordpress/wp-content/themes/luxury/luxury/style.css" media="screen" />


to:

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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/wordpress/wp-content/themes/luxury/luxury/style.css" media="screen" />


or even to a path relative to wordpress/:

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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="wp-content/themes/luxury/luxury/style.css" media="screen" />


Same with every other link.

Assuming you are accessing the site like http://<ip address>/wordpress/ this should work.
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