Localhost and external access messed up, log list

I have installed elgg on my linux mint machine (an old laptop). Everything went good, I enjoy the site.

I have 2 problems:

1.  my laptop is old, so the HD is really slow and all the log writings keep all the computer on hang. There is some tricks to reduce the amounts of logs? I need them, but not so often!

2. into my wlan, the site is located by the address http://129.168.1.33/bakaspace . When I try to access on it via another pc of the network (another laptop with MS Vista), the site try to force to use http://localhost/bakaspace on the browser of the vista pc, messing up everything (I use firefox on both machines).
data folder is in: /var/www/data/bakaspace . I have to modify the mod_rewrite rules?

If something is not clear I can make screenshots.

 

Sorry for my bad English, I'm Italian.

Thanks in advance.

  • with elgg you can only set one site url - yours is currently localhost and that is why it keeps changing to that. 

    You will have to change it your your ip address or computer name in order for other computers to access it. 

    If you are serious about running a popular elgg site then you will need a new fast machine. 

  • It's only a test - if everything works as I want I would like to go on hosting.

    But this problem about llinking make me fear a bit - it isn't a problem with how the links are built by the engine? I mean...why use absolute when you can use relative paths?


    SOLVED - i used the network IP into the settings. But I don't think this is the best solution.

  • not sure what you mean but surely you only need one domain for your site?

  • Obviously I need only ONE domain (on a old laptop for test-purpose only!)

    The problem was:

    when the installer asked me for the full website link, I used http://localhost/bakaspace .

    Working on local, it was good.

    When I used another pc in my wifi area to access the site, everything exploded. Everything that was needed to be served as link (e.g. an image), used the localhost to build the entire link.

    While on REAL localhost, all the links were correct.

    While on another computer, the browser recieved all links with "localhost" in it, and tried to found them into the visitor's localhost...but everything was missing, so it was orrible.

    then I used hosting laptop IP instead of localhost and everything worked. I bother to the fact that to connect in localhost I have to use network IP instead of 127.0.0.1 - I know it was my fault, but I think this could be of some help to other people with the same problem.
    Sorry fot the time I have made you spend about this silly problem!

  • I think it is probably a translation issue but have you resolved the issue?