PressPi (Wordpress) Broken Layout

We have a Raspberry Pi running PressPi which is a wordpress server. Our goal is to setup a Captive Portal using dnsmasq where users who connect to the Pi using a USB WiFi adapter see the PressPi home page when they attempt to surf the web. /etc/networks/interfaces (Rasbian) has been configured with a static IP address and correctly leases an IP address to clients. When these clients navigate to the PressPi server using the Pi's IP address, they see a broken layout whereas connecting to the Pi at http://localhost/ using the Pi's desktop renders the PressPi home page correctly.

Tried and failed:

  • I'm not familiar with Nginx and thinking it could be an issue with its configuration, I installed and configured Apache2 but this didn't fix the issue.
  • Confirmed that the entire directory including its content is owned by www-data and tried different permissions (775, 755, 777), all to no avail.
  • Setup a fairly complex HTML site and that rendered properly over the network.
  • Viewed all associated log files and there was no information related to my current problem. And that was expected since there were no errors.
  • Manually updated WordPress Address (URL) and Site Address (URL) to the Pi's static address (http://192.168.1.185) by defining them in the wp-config.php file and confirmed the change from the Admin CP.

I can't think of any reason why I get a broken display over the network, but not on the Pi's desktop. I appreciate any suggestions.

UPDATE This is a Wordpress problem. I suspect something to do with a path update as other applications render properly over the network.

Topic outside-wordpress ip wp-config server Wordpress

Category Web

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I know this is late, and you might have found the answer already, but I suspect you'll need to do a serialized search and replace on the DB. You can't just change the WP domain name in wp-config.php. The database still has entries for the setup domain name, whatever that might be (localhost?). You can use this tool: https://interconnectit.com/products/search-and-replace-for-wordpress-databases/

I use version 2, as it is just a .php file, but version 3 has a more useful interface. You'll need the DB creds, the old url ("localhost"), and the new one (your IP, in this case.) After this, you'll only be able to see a working, non-broken version, at the IP.

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