WP installed on server but domain not pointed to it

  • I have WP installed on server where domain name is not pointing (I am setting up site first and it will be several weeks before I’m ready to point nameservers to it). I can login to Admin but then I get a Login Failed. It looks like WP code is set up so that the domain has to resolve on the server where WP is installed before it will work. Is that true or is there a way around it?

    Is it possible to edit the index.php file so that WP won’t redirect?

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  • can you use a temp. url until you are ready?
    can you install it in a sub folder – keeping it private – until you’re ready?

    If so, when ready you can then move it
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

    Thread Starter Sculley

    (@sculley)

    Temp URL? Do you mean purchase an extra domain name? Only issue with that is all the SEO juice for those pages will go to that URL until the real site is changed over. If one does a search for the site or keywords, many of the listings point to the temp URL even after putting the real site up (I’ve experienced that before). Guess I can ask pages to be taken out of Google index via Webmaster tools. Kind of a pain but may be the only way it will work.

    Sorry that was so long winded. Is that what you meant?

    well not exactly – your host should give you a temp url (at least some do) until the dns resolves.
    Also, you can set the blog to be private from google until you are ready

    How do you access the account now? https://43.43.33.233/~mulder ?

    Blocking user-agents using robots.txt

    There are also plugins that will do this for you.

    Anyway, there are also several plugins that let you put up a temp theme so the public sees one thing and logged in admins see another…

    Plugin Name: Theme Tester
    Plugin URI: https://ocaoimh.ie/theme-tester/
    Description: Allow an admin to test new themes without showing your blog visitor

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