Why does my new installation display correctly on the server, but when I view it from a different machine, styles and images are missing?
In the installation instructions, one of the suggested settings for ‘webroot’ is ‘localhost’. This is fine if all you want to do is some local testing of your new Moodle installation. If, however, you want to view your new installation from another machine on the same local area network, or view your site on the internet, you will have to change this setting: • For local testing, ‘localhost’ is fine for the webroot ($CFG->wwwroot in config.php). • If you want to test your site from other machines on the same local area network (LAN), then you will have to use the private ip address of the serving machine, (e.g. 192.168.1.2/moodle) or the network name of the serving computer (e.g. network_name_of_serving_machine/moodle) as the web root. Depending on your LAN setup, it may be better to use the network name of the computer rather than its (private) ip address, because the ip address can and will change from time to time. If you don’t want to use the network name, then you will have to spe
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