flammobammo

If your webserver installation allows you, see if there’s a switch to revert back to PHP4… I distinctly remember doing that to confirm it was a problem with the upgrade to PHP5, and it was very helpful.

drdeadpan,

I think it’s the link to your theme directory. In your WP admin check that the two URI’s are set to

<cocde>https://cachecow.org

More importantly, see if you can find out what code you’ve modified (i.e. on the home page, whatever that is) why when I load your site, and view the source code, it tries to load stuff from localhost:8888:


body { background: url("https://localhost:8888/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickbgcolor.jpg"); }
#page { background: url("https://localhost:8888/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickbg.jpg") repeat-y top; border: none; }
#header { background: url("https://localhost:8888/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickheader.jpg") no-repeat bottom center; }
#footer { background: url("https://localhost:8888/wp-content/themes/default/images/kubrickfooter.jpg") no-repeat bottom; border: none;}


Just off the top of my head, I think I had a similar problem when I upgraded my XAMPP webserver installation from using PHP4 to PHP5 that the instruction for including files changed, and I had to change the formatting of a few lines that used the include command.

Hope this helps, and good luck debugging!

https://wp-plugins.net/plugin/home-page-control/

Haven’t tried it myself, hope it helps.

Sweet sreenadh, I’m going to use that from now on, and replace all my “_blank”‘s !! Cheers!

That’s the exact plugin I use – unfortunately I use my ISP’s SMTP, to go to a gmail account. Sorry, can’t be of any more help.

Cyclone,

I’m not sure of a solution, but I also could never get WP to work with my mail server, and I ended up using a plugin mail server.

Tom

This may be a botchy solution possibly worth considering for old links: using the Search and Replace feature in wp-admin to search for:

<a href=”

and replace it with

<a target=”_blank” href=”

That way any links without the new page/tab code will now have it, although I’m not sure if it’s bad to have it double tagged, and it certainly is only good for a once off “clean-up” if you’re now using the blank tag, and want to clean up old posts.

Hi, you may like to repost this where you’re referring to. In the mean time, I’m pretty sure I’ve seen plugins to do this kind of stuff. Have a thorough look, and if you can’t find me, PM me and I’ll help you find the one you’re looking for (if there is one!)

Something I may consider writing a plugin for Firefox1.5 for, is to allow for manual and static caching of DNS entries in the DNS cache for Firefox.

To see what I’m talking about you type (in Firefox) About:Config in the url bar, and filter for anything containting ‘DNS’. I’ll take this up in the mozilla forums, and if it eventuates to anything that may be useful for WP users I’ll post it back here, or PM me to find out what I’ve dug up.

So, what’s the point having an offline blog?

Refer to above about why my blog is offline. If you are still genuinely interested as to why my blog is offline, ask the folk atIt’s very much an optional tweak, which saves router/ISP traffic, makes your page load faster when browsing on your own computer (particularly when simultaneously using peer-to-peer software, etc).

I also have a nice local WP install on XAMPP ?? – to work on themes, design, to test different stuff.
And for the real website and blog(s) I pay 5 bucks a months – and no headache.

As for the point of having an offline blog, it’s not something I deliberately intended on doing, but to change to a faster ISP it’s something that has to be done.

And for completness, regarding the 5 bucks a month, it would actually cost me a lot more than that (in my currency) due to the large amount of data hosted on my site with my photo gallery that I maintain for family and friends.

Also, I’m intending on virtual-hosting other sites in the near future, so unlimited storage space is good. But this is getting off topic, so I shall stop.

The whole point of me doing this is because I’m “offline” … and my wordpress install is hosted on my webserver. So … I’m offline, and so is my blog!! ??

I’m currently working on my site until I get changed over to a new ISP, and that’s the whole reason for me posting this in the first place… because I’m offline!! ??

If you read all the posts carefully it should make sense to everyone, but if you still “don’t understand half of it” let me know what that is, and I’ll edit the post.

Thanks,
Tom

vkaryl,

Perhaps if you try it again, and post your results here in thorough detail, we can get it working for you this time? Would love to help.

Tom

Ummm actually vkaryl I cleared the browser cache, updated my blog heavily, and yes it actually does update the page whilst no internet connection is present… so maybe you should try what I’ve done? .. Have you tried what I’ve done before saying it doesn’t work? ??

Perhaps vkaryl being a moderator, you could remove your post (and then this one too) so that other browsers don’t think this doesn’t work.. because.. it does!

Thanks for your opinion moshu, however I’m not sure why you said what you did. What exactly do you mean when you say you can’t you have localhost and internet address in the same time?

Regardless, in the webmastersworld forum (link above) a solution was pointed out to me.

You search for the hosts file (in my case c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts) which has no extension, and simply add the line under:

127.0.0.1 localhost

you add:

127.0.0.1 mydomainname_oninternet

You can then unplug your computer from the internet (i.e. your router, or leave it plugged in and just loose connection, or whatever!) and the page will load. However it will load painfully slowly, because you are most likely still using the DNS lookup of your router, or your ISP.

To force windows (or linux or whatever) to check the hosts file first for local DNS resolution, go to your TCP/IP properties for your network connection, and make 127.0.0.1 your primary DNS, and your router your secondary DNS. (Or if you have a primary and secondary from your ISP, make them your secondary and third, the third can be done in windows by clicking on the DNS tab.)

You can then load your local website like magic offline. However, I haven’t currently got a connection to the net at home so aren’t 100% sure what it will do when I get back online. Also, I can’t get other computers on the LAN to load the webserver… yet!!

Tom

In summary, people with wordpress installtions on their local computer can same a lot of ISP/router traffic by doing the above.

Note: I’ve taken this question to

webmasterworld

and as mentioned above will post soultion here as well.