I Think My Installation is Half Baked

  • Resolved garymich

    (@garymich)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    I have just installed WordPress as a sub-domain under one of my other sites on one of my servers. As I have complete administrative priveleges for my servers I do not use CPanel or Plesk to maintain my sites, I just log in using remote desktop.

    When I browse the blog from within the server using https://locathost/etc.. the blog appears to work properly, the pages are displayed correctly and the links seem to work correctly. When I try and browse to the blog using the regular method (https://www.sitenae/wordpress) it opens a page but it looks very different then when run within the server. Most of the links that point to other pages within the site don’t seem to work though those that point to the www.ads-software.com site do.

    I am completely at a loss to figure out what is wrong as I followed the installation instructions to the letter as far as I know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • did you install wordpress using the localhost url?

    look in the source of the front page. what are the urls you see?

    Thread Starter garymich

    (@garymich)

    Hi,

    Sorry for not responding earlier. I am not quite sure of what you mean by: did you install wordpress using the localhost url, is this a config file setting or where would I have entered this information? Would this be in the wp-config.php file?

    When you refer to the front page, which of the files are you referring to? I have looked at a few of the files and find that one usually tells me to look at another. So right now I still can’t find the page containing the urls.

    I am going to examine my wp-config.php file in more detail to see if I can figure out where I have gone wrong. Let me know if you have any other ideas or can clarify the items I have mentioned.

    thnx

    Gary

    did you install wordpress using the localhost url

    Did you rdp’ into the box, open a browser on that server, and proceed to to install using the localhost url, as opposed to the actual domain name?

    localhost install would have used a url containing the string localhost, like you used above. The other would have used the real, resolvable, domain name.

    that’s what I’m asking ??

    front page == front of the blog.

    Thread Starter garymich

    (@garymich)

    Hi,

    Thanks again for the prompt response. I think I now understand what you are asking and yes I suppose I did install using the localhost url. And I now can see why that would be a problem so I will attempt to re-install and see how it goes.

    Thanks for your help, it is greatly appreciated. I will let you know how I make out.

    Thread Starter garymich

    (@garymich)

    Hi,

    Well I don’t know if I am progressing or regressing. I have tried to do a re-install using the real domain name. Problem is now after I enter the name of the blog and my email address in the first step I am getting the following IIS error:

    The page cannot be displayed
    You have attempted to execute a CGI, ISAPI, or other executable program from a directory that does not allow programs to be executed.
    ——————————————————————————–

    Please try the following:

    Contact the Web site administrator if you believe this directory should allow execute access.
    HTTP Error 403.1 – Forbidden: Execute access is denied.
    Internet Information Services (IIS)

    I have tried allowing execute access for the folder from within IIS for both the wordpress folder and the wordpress/wp-admin folders but it doesn’t seem to make a difference.

    Any other ideas?

    thnx

    Gary

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