Works On The Server, No Where Else! (using small internal network LAN)

[merlot]

Completely bewildered by this behavior. Have done fresh install of zencart ( v1.3.0.2 full ) on RedHat Linux. Did the normal prelimary chmod adjustments prior, and after the install. Using irefox browser on the server with http://localhost looks great and the install is done so the Zencart index.php is in the web server's root directory. No warnings or error messages of any kind show on the storefront when accessing the store directly on the server. Thouht we were ready to start customizing.

However if I go to any other machine on the LAN and enter http://IPAddress it delivers the text only and no images, and any link selected delivers a 404.
Same problem occurs if we use http://mydomain.com that points to this server from the outside. Port 80 is open and if I place a sample index.html in place of the index.php and try to access it, it works fine.

RHEL:
MySQL 4.1.20,
Php 4.3.9,
Apache v2.0.52

I've also installed Zencart with RHEL and XAMPP and it replicates the problem exactly the same. Works fine on the server, fails everywhere else.

Hostname: estore

I've looked at the /admin/includes/configure.php and all four Define statements for HTTP_Server and HTTP_Catalog_Server all have http://localhost ( which is what I thought it should be ).

Its an understatement to say we missed something but we're completely perplexed!

Anybody seen anything like this?

merlot

[DrByte]

This is a typical problem for someone trying to work on a small network.

"localhost" always means "my computer" ... not necessarily the server.

Thus, while the server can see localhost as itself properly, Computer A will look for a webserver on Computer A when looking up "localhost", rather than the server.


You need to use the real IP address instead of localhost when you install Zen Cart, or manually edit the configure.php files to change http://localhost to http://192.168.0.1 or whatever the IP address is.

Don't touch the line for DATABASE_SERVER ... if it's localhost, it should STAY localhost.

[merlot]

OK.

We have two occurences of configure.php:

First:
/htdocs/includes/configure.php. Did a search on "localhost". There's only 1 occurence in line 71 in the 'DB_SERVER', 'localhost', but based on our read of the input we left this as is. Was that correct?

Second:
/htdocs/admin/includes/configure.php
Four occurences each in a define statement, lines 26-29
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://localhost'); we changed to 'http://192.168.1.193');
The next 3 lines were nearly identical.

We saved, rebooted and tested again. Ouch, same problem as before.

[merlot]

Just after hitting the send button we realized we looked at the configure.php's incorrectly. Will revisit that again and update.

Also, thanks for the previous input.

-Merlot

[merlot]

Success!

We missed one of the localhost entries. We really look forward to customizing this.

Thanks again

[JoelCap]

OK.

We have two occurences of configure.php:

First:
/htdocs/includes/configure.php. Did a search on "localhost". There's only 1 occurence in line 71 in the 'DB_SERVER', 'localhost', but based on our read of the input we left this as is. Was that correct?

Second:
/htdocs/admin/includes/configure.php
Four occurences each in a define statement, lines 26-29
define('HTTP_SERVER', 'http://localhost'); we changed to 'http://192.168.1.193');
The next 3 lines were nearly identical.

We saved, rebooted and tested again. Ouch, same problem as before.

I notest that this changes are only made ind the admin zone store, and not on the shopping store. I made those changes and when I try to enter the adin zone from the zerver I cannot do it anymore. Now from the server I only access to the shopping cart.
Is this normal?

In any case I don't enter the admin zone either the shopping zone from a remote pc.

[DrByte]

If you have things configured properly, you should be able to access from both the server and other PC's

[Tonybergdahl]

I have the same problem. In configure.php i have my domainadress http://www.mysite.se when the site works outside LAN. When i take a look at the site inside LAN i only shows text becouse of wrong links. So i have to change to ../ or http://192.168.1.38. to se it normal. I have tryed everything but i cant find any easy solution. The best was just write ../ it worked fine internal and erxternal - fine! But when i tryed with IE it failed. Microsoft as usual.
/Tony

[leifmoni]

I have had this problem for 5 month now without finding a solution

[leifmoni]

I have had this problem for 5 month now without finding a solution

But it also occure with JOOMLA! and osCommerce - works on server and on LAN but not from outside the Internet ??

Still searching...