XAMPP redirecting page to localhost of accessing page on LAN

[deeprao]

Hi

I am using XAMPP for Linux and installed Wordpress to work on it.
I am using the htdocs folder where i downloaded my installation for Wordpress.
Now everytime I run my page, it always gets redirected to localhost.
Meaning, if i say http://<machine_name>/fusion on a machine that has access to the server (meaning on LAN), it gets redirected to http://localhost/fusion.
As localhost/fusion is not available on the current machine, i get a 404 error.

Please suggest what configuration needs to be changed

Thank
Deepika

[Wiedmann]

Please suggest what configuration needs to be changed

That's a setting (server name) in Wordpress.

[deeprao]

Thanks for the reply.
Any idea where that setting could be found.. i tried but did not get that!

[glitzi85]

Hi,

log in to Wordpress as admin, go to Settings and check the WordPress adress and Blog adress Settings.

glitzi

[deeprao]

hi

thanks for the reply.

i tried that but its also getting reset to localhost
asking this in the wordpress forum, they said its an apache issue!

please help

[glitzi85]

It is definitely the problem of Wordpress. I get the same problem here, when installing WP local.

Open phpmyadmin and select the database used by wordpress. Then open the table "options" (should be wp_options - depending on what you provided as table prefix during installation).

Look for the Row with the Option Names "siteurl" and "home" (should be id 1 and 39). Change the value of option_value from this two rows by removing the absolute URL. For example:

Before: http://localhost/wordpress
After: /wordpress

Now your Wordpress should work with every Hostname.

glitzi