how to access drupal site using domain containing host ip address as prefix

Question

My drupal site works in local domain dev.example.com (which is configured as a virtual host).

For some reason, now I need to access the site using exactly the following address:

http://192.168.3.149/dev.example.com

where 192.168.3.149 is the IP address of the local host where the site resides.

When this address is entered, I am redirected to http://192.168.3.149/install.php. Looks like Drupal treats this as a new domain.

How to tell Drupal to treat these two domains identically, i.e. treat http://192.168.3.149/dev.example.com as an alias of http://dev.example.com ?

Answer 1

It sounds like your site's settings might be in a multisite folder like /sites/dev.example.com/. When you aren't visiting via the hostname it will fall back to the settings in /sites/default/—check that those values are correct.