Apache Friends Support Forum

Hello,

I am new to Apache web servers and XAMPP. Here's what I'm trying to do, and failing at every attempt:

I need to show a client his wordpress site that I've been working on before it goes onto his web host live.

So, obviously I have ports forwarded, a static IP host, and the firewall configured. I think.

The problem: The site "loads", but not in wordpress format. I see the text from the wordpress site and the text formatting (colors), and that's the end of it. I tried fiddling with XAMPP settings, blew up XAMPP entirely, and had to re-do the Wordpress site (don't ask, I was VERY upset).

Now, before I blow up XAMPP again (backed up the entire WP site this time), how the crap can I tell XAMPP to allow people from outside to view my WP site as a WP site? I assume PHP and / or Java script is being blocked?

Oh, and it's a fresh install of XAMPP again. I couldn't recover whatever I did to blow it up. All settings are default, except a root password to the SQL database.

In my experience, you probably need to change the URL's in your WP Dashboard to match your external IP. It likely has nothing to do with XAMPP. BTW - if you place more than one WP install on your machine you may need some fancy dancing (hosts files entries), as either a WP multi-site install OR vhosts will probably be needed. You can avoid that by using a FQDN for your XAMPP machine, then vhosts will work properly.

Good Luck



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