How to change a localhost url to ip in wordpress? - wordpress

Question

I am developing a site using wordpress, MySQL and Xampp. The current url is like localhost/wordpress/sitename.
How can I change the localhost to an ip address to get the site working on other computers on the same network?

Answer 1

First Change url in "wp-option" table in site_url and home_url.
then change folder name in .htaccess file. and then change database name in wp-config.php file

Answer 2

In my scenario I found that intranet users weren't receiving the images and other resources (stylesheets) when connecting to my locally hosted wordpress site by url. The problem was that the urls for those resources were being emitted as localhost, which of course wasn't useful to their machine.
The general solution is to update the Wordpress Address and Site Address on the General Settings tab in the Wordpress dashboard with your ip address rather than the default of localhost, then everything will be emitted relative to that.
In my case I wasn't able to edit those directly for configuration reasons I haven't resolved. I found the solution on the Wordpress site under the Relocate subtopic on "Changing the site URL". It's simple.
Near the end of the wp-config.php file, just before the line
/* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */
add the following
define('RELOCATE',true);
Then navigate to your site using the url rather than localhost and the setting s will be updated. In a local network situation where your url is changing frequently you could just leave the switch set to true, but on a production server it would be a security risk, and you should revert the setting to 'false' or remove the statement promptly.

Answer 3

put this statements into wp-config.php :
if ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == '127.0.0.1' || $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] == '::1') {
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://localhost/wordpress/sitename/');
define('WP_HOME' , 'http://localhost/wordpress/sitename');
} else if (strpos($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'],'192.168.1.') !== false) {
//local network: see ifconfig
define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://192.168.1.57/wordpress/sitename/');
define('WP_HOME' , 'http://192.168.1.57/wordpress/sitename');
}

Answer 4

You put your IP address allocated by the network's DHCP server(if it exists) instead of 'localhost' it should work. else just put your ip address form the other computers connected to the network.
Eg. If your IP address turns out to be 127.23.45.66
You should enter this in the address bar of the other comps
127.23.45.66/wordpress/sitename

Answer 5

You should change the site URL in your Wordpress settings to your IP else Wordpress will always redirect to what is in the settings.
after you access your site by 127.23.45.66/wordpress/sitename on any browser in your network including your own device.