imahussey

Hey thanks for the reply from both! You guys got me going in the right direction.

I guess I didn’t mention that I have no Domain Name registered at this time, I just placed the WordPress install right into the root directory of my webserver, but I don’t want to tote around the old pc that it’s on and my VNC sucks! My intent is just to be able to play with wordpress, but I wanted to do it from another location across the internet. I don’t care if someone stumbles across my “live” site.

I’m not really clear on if this is the correct way to do this, but I found a fix in the general settings> wordpress address (url) and site address (url). Once I changed them to “https://ip_of_server” in both wordpress address and site address, I was then able to see my WP site across the internet fully and I was also able to log into the back-end admin area from a remote pc. However, the result of this change is that I loose the ability to access WP from the localhost, and I don’t think to highly of that. I would have expected this access to still be available, but neither typing in the IP nor localhost into the webbrowser on the localhost is successful any more.
I also tried different combinations of using the IP in wp address, and localhost in site address, or the other way around, but only when I used the IP for both was I able to get the links to not be broken in some way and still have access across a WAN.

I”m not really sure why this works after reading the descriptions for these options. They read like it’s more for when you don’t place the WP install directly into the root folder on your server and you are attempting to re-direct the requests to a sub-folder.

If anyone wants to elaborate on that be my guest or if you have a better fix let me know, but it seems this will work for my purposes.

Thanks again,
Nick

• This reply was modified 7 years, 7 months ago by imahussey.