Can not see any images and links are not work at all

[piyiyo]

I have installed oscommerce in my PC, and working fine (the local url is http://localhost/catalog). However, when i try to acces from remote computer, i can't see any image and any link works fine (the url used is http://My_PC_IP/catalog).

 

Any idea of what could be the solution?

 

I have installed the xampp tool, so i have use Apache web server. Could be some problem with the apache configuration?

 

Another antecedent is that links in the remote computer shows the following url: http://localhost/catalog/.......) I think that is the problem, but i don't know how to solve it...

 

Thanks in advance for your kindly help!

[♥ecartz]

First, XAMPP is not intended for remote access. Its default permissions are completely insecure. You should use it only with a firewall that disables remote access unless you redo all the permissions. This is important, because your computer could get compromised by someone who compromises your XAMPP install.

 

Second, if you change your configure.php files to have the local IP rather than localhost, it should fix your image and link problems. The issue is most likely that you are broadcasting as localhost, which won't work on any computer but the one where the server is actually local.

 

The purpose of a XAMPP based install is simply to allow you to make and test changes locally. If you want remote access, you should really use a different solution that includes remote access security.