Only Internal Access to Site – No external access

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    I have installed WordPress on a Raspberry Pi. The installation itself went smoothly. I have a theme downloaded and working just fine, but only on my internal network. Within the network, if I go to 10.0.0.110 I can access the website, login to the admin panel, and change all the settings. No problem.

    I have a FreeDNS account setup and an app that is constantly updating my public IP address so that the domain name lines up.

    My problem is this – when I try to go to the domain name directly (zstream.chickenkiller.com), the website never loads. Even when I try to access it outside of my home network.

    If I go to zstream.chickenkiller.com/license.txt, I can get that specific file. So Apache2 is working. There are no blocked port issues.

    What appears to be the problem is that zstream.chickenkiller.com tries to forward to 10.0.0.110, which is obviously the internal network. I’ve tried adjusting the WordPress Address and Site Address in the WordPress settings, but that just locks me out of the system. I might be misunderstanding those settings.

    Anyways, I’m happy to answer any questions of any info you might need to help me troubleshoot. I appreciate it!

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  • It looks like the site url and home url options were saved with your server’s local IP address instead of the domain you want to use.

    What happens when you try adding the following to your wp-config.php file?

    define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'https://zstream.chickenkiller.com' );
define( 'WP_HOME',    'https://zstream.chickenkiller.com' );
    Thread Starter marshzd

    (@marshzd)

    That worked! Thank you. My only problem now is that when I’m in my internal network, I can’t seem to get to the page/admin page. Is there a workaround for that?

    I happen to be at work and so I can get to it. But I’m remote desktop’d to my home computer and can’t access it anymore.

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