I have set up the latest Wordpress version 5.3.2 on my local machine by using XAMPP 3.2.4. Since I want to check out my homepage also on a mobile device (not only an emulator on my desktop) I tried to access it from my phone. I always get the error "ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED" when I try to call it with "http://192.168.0.170/wordpress". This is the IP of my notebook where XAMPP is running.

Interesting thing to add: It works without issues from another notebook in the same network. What I have seen is, that the mobile phone redirects from the IP address to "localhost/wordpress" while the notebooks do not redirect.

Now, I am aware that this is not a new problem and I have read most likely all posts on this topic in the internet. What did I already tried and changed in order to get it running:

• Add an entry in the Firewall settings to allow connections on port 80
• Change the site URL and home URL in the wordpress settings to the local IP

There are multiple suggestions to change settings in the Apache config files from XAMPP. I did not do any changes there as the code which is proposed to be changed cannot be found in the files.

Do you have any idea why it could not work on a mobile device while it does work from another notebook?

Thank you very much!

Regards, Philip