Port forward – Switches

surge,

Read this article:
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL

I suggest you phpMyAdmin method.

Thanks very much.

I quickly read the article.
From what I understand it looks like the method will only Keep the port forwarding up until the admin screen.

I will try to read and understand more.

But Im looking for the entire site to be redirected from whatever location is calling on the site.

arkgroup,

After racking my brain, and to put it

more straight forward

I think I want “Relative” and not “Absolute” url adressing.

so [url]/wordpress, can be whatever url the user typed in.

Now I just have to find the right implementation of this or plugin.

any other thoughts

I Think I found my solution for anyone who reads this.
I will know later once I change one piece of information on my firewall at work.

My Problem seems to be with Port 80
IM using Mamp

First I log into admin on wordpress:

I change WordPress address (Url) to https://(your_ip):8888/wordpress
I change Site address (Url) to https://(your_ip):8888/wordpress
I save changes and get an error because I am now pointing to a
different port.
I change my port on mamp to apache 8888 mysql 8889 (its default)
Set Firewall (outside ip):port 8888 >Forward to (inside ip):port8888
I now goto https://(your_ip):8888/wordpress – and Bingo!

I now see the url bar say exactly what I want.

so since I am at home right now with no access to my firewall I am going to have to wait and see on monday if the new port I put wordpress on works remotley.

Still only sort of works.

Changed Fire wall settings and it only ever seems to work one way.

So working from home > wordpress address and site url to
https://(external_ip):8888/wordpress – this works from home, but not from the office

At the office > wordpress address and site url to
https://(internal_ip):8888/wordpress – this works from office, but not from home.

Im using logmein to see this affect.

Home Computer > Fire wall External ip > forwards to > Internal ip

Its just not working both ways. hmmm..ANy one else reading this or can help here?

Is this just all firewall related?

See if your firewall or router has a setting which blocks loopback connections.

https://www.dyndns.com/support/kb/loopback_connections.html

Thanks for the info – Will look into it right away.

O.k Everything works now.

I can now access my wordpress site from home and from work.

This makes life so much easier now.

The real trick was the proper port forwarding allowing loop backs.

Thanks for the help!