Tunneling through ngrok strips wordpress site of styles and theme

Question

I have a wordpress site on an IIS at localhost. To demo the site, I used ngrok to make the site available.

When viewing the site on localhost, everything looks fine. However, when I view the site remotely through the ngrok tunnel, the content appears, but all style & theme elements are lost.

I am not sure what code, configuration or documentation would be helpful for solving this problem.

Any idea why this may be occurring?

Answer 1

This happens because the links in wordpress are usually absolute, you need to force Wordpress to use relative URLs with one of those plugins:

https://github.com/optimizamx/odt-relative-urls

http://wordpress.org/plugins/relative-url/