Wordpress Hosted on my Laptop

I have been developing a Wordpress blog using the Bitnami stack running on my laptop. My laptop is connected to my home network, which includes a Netgear Router. I put the Wordpress stack on my USB card, just for portability. But when I disconnected my laptop from my home network today to go meet with a friend, I couldn’t startup the Wordpress site and demonstate it, because Safari said,

“Safari can’t open the page “http://192.168.0.4/wordpress/wp-admin/edit.php” because it can’t find the server “192.168.0.4”.

Suffice it to say, that this problem will be obvious to someone experienced, but to a first timer, I don’t know what’s happening with the Apache server and my router. I thought I could run the stack on my laptop independent of any router. I guess not. I know this is not a Bitnami issue, but I think this is a great lesson for Wordpress users, and people who want to install the Bitnami stack on their laptop.

Do I have to have a router connected? Why did this error happen? Should I configure my Wordpress or Apache installation differently?

Hi pypo,

Unfortunately Wrodpress need a static ip to other users can access to wordpress. In your case wordpress has been installed at “192.168.0.4” ip so you can not access if you change your network ip. You can select the machine ip during the installation. You have two possibilities:

1) If you select the 127.0.0.1 ip (the local ip), your wordpress is always running at this ip. if you change the network is also running but other computers can not access to your wordpress.

2) If you select your public ip (192.168.X.X or another diferent to 127.X.X.X) other users can access to your wordpress remotely but you can not change the network ip because probably your ip will be changed.

I hope it helps you.

i was using bitnami wordpress stack 2.7. i GOT SOME TROUBLE AS and i uninstalled it, now, I am unable to reinstall. It hangs up at finished part.and i have to cancel installtion. Moreover, some registry files exist and i find it difficult to erase Bitnami folder from the winxp/dricec/program files. I tried it with 2.8 and still the prob remains same. I had so many installation attempt.

pleeeeze help me out asap. I am a tech-dumb.come up with layman language to get things in to my mind.
when i run 120.0.0.1 it shows database error and many a time blank screen, I had it running fine.
log in : user /and password was just 123 with no spcl characters.
i even tried installing upgraded version and that too failed to install..
the final statement that appears are..
installing apache as a windows service with name wordpressApache-3..and it hangs on there..

Hi,

Could you post the error? Is there any error in installation_directory\mysql\data\mysqld.log? Do you have any firewall enabled?