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So I am fairly new to xampp and I've managed to install it on my works server. This is acting as the local host for our intranet website. I have also managed to install wordpress as I will be using this to design the website. The problem I'm having is I can see all of the content I create in wordpress on the localhost:portnumber/wordpress but when I go to another machine at the office I have to type in the ip address of the server:portnumber/wordpress/wp_login. The browser gets redirected to the wordpress website but it doesn't display any of the content I put in on the server side. I have a feeling it's a file that isn't configured right but I can't seem to find any answers for this.

Wordpress by default can only be used for one Domain/Host.
To use multiple Domains/Hosts you need to use Multisite or a workaround you can find with google (Wordpress configuration issues are out of scope of this supportr board here).

tmanneri wrote:So I am fairly new to xampp and I've managed to install it on my works server. This is acting as the local host for our intranet website. I have also managed to install wordpress as I will be using this to design the website. The problem I'm having is I can see all of the content I create in wordpress on the localhost:portnumber/wordpress but when I go to another machine at the office I have to type in the ip address of the server:portnumber/wordpress/wp_login. The browser gets redirected to the wordpress website but it doesn't display any of the content I put in on the server side. I have a feeling it's a file that isn't configured right but I can't seem to find any answers for this.

Ok.

Best is to create a virtual host for your wordpress site. Give it the name of a subdomain of an existing website you own, something like intranet.example.com

Then go to your website provider, hope you have one and they allow DNS edits, and add this subdomain of the existing domain with the ip address of your local pc.

Then, everyone on the intranet can use your wordpress site.

Do it all the time, it works perfectly.

Don't hesitate to ask more.

but when I go to another machine at the office I have to type in the ip address of the server:portnumber/wordpress/wp_login.

You may also enter server:portnumber on localhost (simply enter the LAN IP instead of "localhost"), therefore you should have provided the LAN IP instead of "localhost" at installation of wordpress. Either de-install wordpress and install it again, this time apply the LAN IP as servername, OR simply edit wp-config.php and search the configuration of the local server and change "localhost" to the LAN IP of the server.

After that you can run wordpress from all your intranet PC as well from your server using the LAN IP (do not use "localhost" anymore).