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POPage Not Found on home network server (Ubuntu, PHP Apache, MySQL)
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copied!<p>I have just set up a server on my home network to allow testing of a development website from several computers. Ubuntu and the usual programs (Apache, PHP, MySQL) are also installed.</p> <p>The website, although still not a production site, is also up on a web host and all works well there. I uploaded a copy of all the Drupal (Ver 7) files to the new server as well as the database.</p> <p>Since it's a home based server, the IP of the site is 192.168.1.8. If I enter the www.example.com in the URL, my browser points to the copy of the site on the server of the hosting company.</p> <p>If I enter 192.168.1.8, I am taken to the front page of the site on my home server. Everything there displays well. I do not want this new server to be accessible to the public yet.</p> <p>However if I click, say, on the "request new password" link of the User Login block of the front page, I get a "Not Found - The requested URL/user/password was not found on this server" message and the URL reads "192.168.1.8/user/password"</p> <p>Ditto with the create new account page and all pages directly accessible to unregistered users such as the About Us page or the Terms of Service Page.</p> <p>If I try to log into my account (from the front page login block) I am not taken anywhere and remain on the front page.</p> <p>Now, I do plan to develop this home server to make it accessible from the web in the future but I know I will need a fixed IP address and a DNS that will point to it.</p> <p>In the mean time, however, how can I have the site work on this new server? It's only for testing purposes at the moment so what shows in the URL is unimportant.</p> <p>As far as I could see, all folders have a permission of 755.</p> <p>Any thought or suggestion to make this work?</p> <p>Thank you. :)</p>

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