Raspberry Pi Server

[ZFGeek]

I just finished setting up a wordpress website on my Raspberry Pi using this guide. 
https://circuitdigest.com/microcontroller-projects/how-to-setup-webserver-on-raspberry-pi-and-host-a-wordpress-website 
I set it up on the pi just fine, but when I go to another computer on the network and try to access it using localhost, it errors out saying 'localhost refused to connect' and 'error_connection_refused'. What can I do to fix it? I don't want it to be internet accessible, only in the local network, like the tutorial said.

[elpiop]

Use the internal ip of the pi on the network, not localhost

[ZFGeek]

7 minutes ago, elpiop said:

Use the internal ip of the pi on the network, not localhost

I tried that, but it opens the site with html only, all styling disappears. 

[ZFGeek]

This is the error:

[elpiop]

Check chrome dev tools Network tab to see where it is trying to load the css from. Might be some configuration issue that only loads it on the local host

[2FA]

Localhost is just another name for the loopback address, 127.0.0.1, which every single computer uses to address itself. Using localhost on a second computer means that the second computer is trying to connect to itself.

[ZFGeek]

18 minutes ago, 2FA said:

Localhost is just another name for the loopback address, 127.0.0.1, which every single computer uses to address itself. Using localhost on a second computer means that the second computer is trying to connect to itself.

That explains why it tells me that it is denied. That makes sense.

[ZFGeek]

55 minutes ago, elpiop said:

Check chrome dev tools Network tab to see where it is trying to load the css from. Might be some configuration issue that only loads it on the local host

This is what it shows:

 

 

It just keeps saying "connection refused".

[Breadpudding]

The issue comes from your Wordpress installation. You told Wordpress that the domain your server is running on is "localhost". So every time it tries to link to something on your site(such as the stylesheet) it causes an error. You can't connect to your Pi with another machine using "localhost" because localhost means the computer you're currently using. So what you need to do is change the domain to the IP address of your Pi(preferably give the Pi a static address) and connect to it via that address.