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  • 12-03-2008 11:33pm
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    phishcakes
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭


    Hi Guys

    Im running Joomla on my wamp server on my destop pc, i have a home network and i can access Joomla on my laptop through the network, the only problem is when i access Joomla on my laptop it doesnt appear correctly and it appears correctly on my desktop pc.

    doe's anyone have any ideas?

    Cheers


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    rmacm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,039 ✭✭✭rmacm


    Moved to Web Development from Nets & Comms


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    cgarvey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    phishcakes wrote: »
    the only problem is when i access Joomla on my laptop it doesnt appear correctly and it appears correctly on my desktop pc.

    What does "doesn't appear correctly" mean? Does the content appear at all on the laptop, is it links that are broken, css broken, or just the design/layout is different (different browsers perhaps?) ?


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    phishcakes
    Registered Users Posts: 326 ✭✭phishcakes


    The admin screen in Joomla and the actual web page itself load up but not correctly, some the images don't show and some of the text appears in the wrong places...

    thanks


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    ve
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    Do the two different machines have different screen resolutions, browsers, etc?


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    cgarvey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    Is the site address (in the Joomla admin/config pages) set to localhost or to my-desktop-machine-name or 192.168.blah.blah? It should be either the full name/address of the computer, or it's IP address.

    This is because Joomla uses full URLs for some things (like CSS, images, etc.) so when you load the page from your laptop, some of the URLs in the web page from your desktop will contain localhost links (which won't work from your laptop, obviously).

    HTH
    .cg


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    ve
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    This is because Joomla uses full URLs for some things (like CSS, images, etc.)
    Are you serious!. My experience with Joomla specifically is minimal, but surely that would only serve to create migration problems for sites based on Joomla.

    I would have always assumed something like Joomla would use relative paths instead of absolute.

    That shut me up ;)


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