Can't access WP site over WiFi network

Question

I'm making a mobile site and I'm using the main computers IP adress to connect to it from the iphone 10.0.0.1/wp

With normal sites it works fine, but the WP site I get is stripped from CSS, JS, and images, only plain text. on the mac and the iphone-simulator it works fine.

Is it something known and configurable?

Answer 1

It may be a conflict between the internal option 'home' or 'siteurl' and the access per pure IP address. WordPress doesn’t use just any server name, there is some redundancy which may get in your way here.

You can try to resolve that by two constants defined in your wp-config.php:

define( 'WP_HOME', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] );
// or
// define( 'WP_HOME', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/wp' );

define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] );
// or
// define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/wp' );

These constants should outdo the options from the database.