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I have a similar issue, but when I try to remotely view my EE website, which is on a WAMP development server, I lose all my images.  When I take the {site_url} out of the links, they break as the URL’s change. 

I know what the issue is, basically that the URL on my local machine has to have localhost, but when I view it on a remote device, it has to have the IP to connect.  That breaks the URLS’s.  Is there a simple fix for this that I am missing?  Thanks in advance for any help!

Hi feeneywireless,

The easiest way to fix this would be to code your links in this way instead :

/images/my_images/image_one.jpg

Note the leading slash before the path

This should then allow links to load from the root of your site and get around any problems you are having.

Unfortunately providing information on setting up servers like this is outside the scope of our support here so I’m going to move this thread over to the Community Help forums to hopefully get a few more eyes on this one for you.

Thanks,

Mark

Sorry this took so long to get back to you!  Actually adding the backslash didn’t work but I think the problem is that I have to have the http://localhost as part of the URL in my control panel and that is what is messing everything up. I am going to be moving it to a live staging server so once I finish that, it should be good to go! Thanks for your help though!

OK, so I found a quick solution to this that may or may not work for anyone that has the same error.

1. Go to ADMIN > GENERAL CONFIG
2. Find ‘URL to the root directory of your site’
3. Change ‘localhost’ to whatever you ip address is. (Something like 111.111.1.11)
4. I would not change it on the next two just in case.  IP Addresses can change, so it is a lot easier to fix it if you keep the theme and the admins pointing to localhost and no the ip.

Anyway, that worked for me yesterday until I got to work today and my IP had changed. So I am not sure if there is a better/more permanent solution, but that worked for me for the time being. Thanks and I hope this helps someone else!

Oh, and this was on EE version 2.2.2 just in case something changes in the future…

Also, make sure you update any of your file upload preferences if you had issues with images updating.

1. Go to CONTENT > FILE UPLOAD MANAGER
2. Select ‘edit’ (pen icon) by any of your current preferences you want changed or changed back
3. Update ‘URL of Upload Directory’ to include your IP address
4. Submit changes

With either of these if you need to switch back just reverse the steps and add localhost wherever your IP Address is located.

Oh, and all of these changes are assuming you are using the base configuration of WAMP Version 2.1.  Hope this helps!