Moved (physically) and now can't access site

  • I managed to get a WP blog up and running a few years ago and have never had any problem access it either internally or remotely, but I recently moved.

    I unplugged by server with WP on it, and plugged it back in at the new house. I updated my domain name to my new IP address.

    Now I can’t access my blog either externally or internally (192.x.x.x/blog).

    I’ve read Moving WordPress, but it doesn’t seem to apply. Nor do any of the other forum entries I found.

    Most of this is over my head, so I apologize in advance if the answer is obvious.

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  • You’re running it off of a home server? Is your home router natting to the interal address of the server? Is your webserver running? There isn’t enough information here to do any troubleshooting.

    Thread Starter VaporLock

    (@vaporlock)

    You’re running it off of a home server? Is your home router natting to the interal address of the server? Is your webserver running?

    Yes, yes, and yes.

    I think I fixed it though. I checked my zonefile and my domain was not directed to my new IP (maybe I didn’t hit save last time??). Correcting that seems to have fixed everything.

    So I have some followup questions:

    1) On my LAN, typing in the IP (ie, 192.x.x.x/blog) redirects to my domain name (saved in siteurl in wp_options) before loading the blog. Why?

    2) When accessing remotely, why can’t you use the IP address, instead of the domain name saved in wp_options? In other words, until my zonefile updated, I couldn’t even access my blog using 74.x.x.x/blog.

    3) Is #2, why I can’t access my blog remotely using blog.domainname.com versus https://www.domainname.com/blog? My siteurl in wp_options is listed as “www.domainname.com/blog”, but I have subdomain forwarding set up so blog.domainname.com forwards to https://www.domainname.com/blog.

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