FrozenPixel

Thank you. Got it all working, cleared all the caches. Now working remotely but now how do you work on it locally, do most make all their modifications then once they are ready , publish it. I may have to create 2 databases, one for production and one for testing. Maybe opening port 8080 was holding something back as well.

The site obviously does not resolve locally because the webserver and development server are the same so I get my router administration page popping up at the localhost prompt. But that is minor at this point.

Thanks for your quick responses, they really helped, I almost called it a night but since you were putting in a good effort to help me out, I felt it only fair to put in the same effort.

Well what I had done was I copied all the WordPress files into the default web server folder and then changed site and home url to DynDNS address. I had to connect through another service to check it and the default page was missing the header graphic and it looked like other graphics were missing but the template was centered.

Ah wait I never forwarded port 8080,,I’ll do that and adjust my firewall accordingly. Yes I had the DynDNS address correct then.

No no I messed up, I mistakenly added the “Sites” folder in the path in the database, because I installed WordPress under my accounts Site folder. It’s all working again locally for now.

See the problem is this is a development server, and I’m using DynDNS to track my dynamic IP, so when someone types in the domain name its resolved through DynDNS so again if the registered name is https://www.mytestserver .com, its then resolved through DynDNS as mytestserver.dyndns.org and that translates to the server.

We are developing a real estate site utilizing WordPress so we want the client to have the ability to view the site.

It seems I messed it up, kinda of half working now. I’m only testing right now so I will have to figure out what changed. But now it’s not possible to even get into the dashboard and with not have reference to localhost you can’t even modify it. The only thing I can do is manually change the Site and Home URL through PhpMyAdmin.

I may need to select the Override All setting as well to get it completely working.

Thank you, just did that but I have a question, should both be the same? What if you created a folder called “blog” and placed the entire WordPress files in there does that affect these setting? Would you then change the settings site and home URL to https://www.example.com/blog ?

Because I basically left the default OSX site as is , created a new folder for the WordPress blog and set that up as the default.

Webserver/Library/Documents/WordPress -> is the location of the files

Thank you ClaytonJames, I have a look at those settings. Yes my router is already set up to forward, thank you.

Do you by chance know what file contains the information form the General Settings if something goes wrong.