If you have hosted Soft School on your local server and want to use in local LAN network then your Soft School hosting machine should have static ip address (not be dynamic assigned by your modem DHCP). Here suppose your server hosting machine have ip address 192.168.1.2 then when you are installing Soft School then you should type 192.168.1.2/myschool/ not localhost/myschool/ other wise you can not access Soft School from other computers in your LAN and will redirect to localhost/myschool/ url. Now if you have installed Soft School using localhost/myschool/ then you can correct this by editing base_url value in file /application/config/config.php . In this file change localhostto your hosting server static ip address like 192.168.1.2 .