Can't connect outside my intranet

  • Another noob question here. I’ve read several posts but they either didn’t address my situation, I didn’t find the right posts, or I flat out didn’t understand them.

    I’ve set up a personal blog at home. I can access it just fine from within my intranet by going to “https://{server}/blog”. But from outside when I try “https://blog.{domain}.org” I can’t access it. The browser address bar will first change to “https://www.{domain}.org/blog” then to “https://{server}/blog/wp-login.php?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.{domain}.org%2Fblog%2Findex.php&reauth=1”.

    I bought my domain through GoDaddy, and I assume I’m forwarding the subdomain, “blog”, correctly since the address first changes to “https://www.{domain}.org/blog”. But then why does it change again? I’m guessing I’ve set something wrong, but I don’t know what. And I also assume that the reason I can’t access the site outside of my intranet is because once the address changes to “https://{server}/…” the name obviously doesn’t resolve to the correct address. Correct?

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  • Hi, you’ve done just about everything right. The problem you are having is because your WordPress site is configured for {server}, but when you access it from outside you go to www.{domain}.org
    The redirect is normal, when you visit wp-login.php it redirects you to the long URL you post… except it is using your site setting, so it redirects you to {server} which of course you can’t access from the outside world.

    I think the easiest thing to do is to log into the site from home, change the site name (under Settings) to www.{domain}.org, and then just access the site from www.{domain}.org even when you’re at home.

    If just changing the site name doesn’t work, you might have to go further, as described in this document.

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