I have designed a wordpress website in xampp and it looks all good in localhost.
But when I access the website from other pc via intranet/lan it looks all messed up and developer tools in chrome says following:
"net::ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED".
How is this resolved?
What URL you are using to access website on Intranet/LAN?
You may need to update URL's (e.g. siteurl) in your database to make it accessible on network.
This is more of an alternative answer but have you tried using Local by Flywheel? It allows you to create a local environment for Wordpress but also allows you to give out a "Live Link"... which essentially allows anyone to view the site on your local environment.
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I've installed wordpress local on my computer with xampp, it's working but now I need to transfer my wordpress.com on my wordpress local. I want to add an extension but it's asking me my FTP credentials and I'm not finding them nor succeeding in creating some. I've tried the different things I found on your forum (chmod, define FS method) but it's not successfull, when i try to download an extension, it tells me that it can't be added to the file. How can I do it please ?
Thank you :) !
If it's asking you for FTP credentials to transfer it through the web, that won't be possible as your site is not reachable, it's only installed locally. This is doable by adding some extra software to make your site accessible, like ngrok.
Instead of that, why don't you use the site exporter?
https://wordpress.com/support/export/
Additionally, if you have a Business or eCommerce plan, you can use a plugin to export your site, like enter link description here
Trying to figure the best way to develop on plesk.
I would like to develop my wordpress website on a temporary url, and attach the production domain only when I am done developing.
From some reason I'm getting various dns errors, saw a guide referring to change of hosts file but it dosent seem like the perfect solution to me.
Any tips?
You may create the clone of your WP instance (staging) and use Plesk Git extension for developing this staging WP site. After making all necessary changes on staging non-public clone you can publish it to a production domain to make it publicly available.
I'm developing a WordPress site. I am testing locally using a WAMP server. The front page of the website has a missing picture. When I click on any link in the front page, it goes "online" (leaves localhost).
What do I have to do, while developing, to stay on localhost and have all relative links?
Did you import your website to localhost? if yes, then you might not have changed URLs of your website to localhost. You can do that by exporting SQL file of your website from phpmyadmin and then change all by any text editor and import it. If its hardcoded for all links then you need to go to each link and change it manually.
What you need to do is set up a local subdomain for your local site. There is a link below on how to achieve this. It is a little bit complicated with WAMP, but not very hard to do. This will mean that your website URL could be website.dev rather than localhost/website, which means that relative URLs will work. I personally use MAMP Pro rather than WAMP, because it allows you to easily set up and manage multiple local subdomains as well as some other handy features. Note that you would need to change your "siteurl" and "home" row values in the database table "wp_options" to the local subdomain if you want to do this on a local wordpress site you have already set up.
It is a bit hard to explain how to set up a local subdomain on here, so if this link ever breaks just google "setup local subdomains using Wamp".
http://www.axertion.com/tutorials/2012/03/how-to-setup-local-subdomains-using-wampserver/
I have created a demo website for a client. I installed the site on the client's live domain name and I used the etc/host DNS trick to point the domain to my development sever. Now I want to send a live preview to client for validation but I don't want to bother her with technical details such as modifying local computer host file. The client doesn’t want to switch the domain to the new site either, until everything is ready as the site is highly active. I have tried the cpanel temporary link (mod_userdir is enabled) but it breaks everything including styles and scripts. Do you have any solution. Thanks.
Update: I have found this site if it can help nodns.io, they only need the emulated domain name and the development server IP.
You can still use the temporary URL and that is the easiest way. You just need to make a change in the WordPress database. You can go to cPanel -> phpMyAdmin, open the database and look for the _options table.
Once you find it, you need to change the home and siteurl options to the temporary URL:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
You can follow the "Changing the URL directly in the database" directions.
Goodluck!
I have a website running on a Wordpress theme. We have made many custom edits of the theme which now breaks when we turn on mobile version. We need to setup a test environment of the site so we can debug it. Is it best to setup a copy of the site as a subdomain, subfolder or do it locally. What is best practice. Thanks.
Best way would be a local setup. But if you don't want to configure to much to test it on your mobile device, you should setup a second installation on your server and make it available via a subdomain. (And of course, if it's on a live server, create a password protection to make it unseen for public eyes.)