: Can't load Wordpress static files on home network I've just installed Wordpress 3.5 on my laptop (LAMP on Ubuntu 12.10) and when I'm trying to access the site from my phone but it doesn't

@Bethany197

Make sure that your CSS files are called in respect to what they are being viewed from - what I mean by that is that your CSS/images are correctly linked to via the html.

For example, for my website I use
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style/style.css" title="style" /> which will call the CSS relative to the root directory of my website, website. So my CSS us located in the folder website/style/style.css.

You may have something like 192.168.49.128 or localhost for your reference which would only make this work if you are viewing the website on your local network. If you'd like a more definitive answer, please supply us with a link to your website so we can actually view the source.

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@Miguel251

It was from the Wodpress Settings, it uses localhost for the site address which is not accessible over the home network so I changed with my laptop's IP (in the home network)

from Settings -> General
Change WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) from : localhost/wordpress to my.laptop.ip/wordpress

and everything works just fine

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@Radia820

It'll be the lamp that your using is not forwarding the information to the outside.

You say you have Drupal running and its working fine, yet is this on another lamp?

In Ubuntu Lamp check your IPtables and check it has internet access, Ping Google.co.uk for example.

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