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Hi, I've followed some previous posts in here to help me setup XAMPP for hosting a testbed for WP dev. My goal is to have a WP site visitable by a remote user for the purposes of previewing and so forth. I've gotten that far. The problem I'm having is that none of the media/css for the site is being seen by the remote user. The sites are skeletal, just HTML formatted text and nothing else. But, the sites appear perfect to me when I view it in-browser from my own machine.

I understand this may not be within scope for XAMPP, but could anyone give me an idea why this would be happening?

-Thanks!

Hi bdigges,

Please check with tools like Firefox Firebug if the css and images and so on (everything which is requested with extra HTTP requests) can be accessed and if their URLs are correct. Very common that is your problem.

best wishes,
Altrea

Hi Altrea!

Thanks for the response. I did as you said and double-checked the URL and file paths of the images and so forth. Everything seems fine from my end, so I don't see why a remote user would be having trouble seeing them?

You should check that from remote connection too, otherwise you can simply do as i can: guessing from far far away...

Altrea wrote:You should check that from remote connection too, otherwise you can simply do as i can: guessing from far far away...

Hiya! I did what you said and it worked! Partially.

I search and replaced the working url to my local url. That helped, but for reason or another the site still won't load the theme for remote users. Any idea why this might be?

Thanks for all your help so far!

You should probably check with the theme authors - OR better - simply remove the theme and re-install fresh on your local installation.

Good Luck