joshpe

I’ve just tried your first link and the wp-admin page and home page both load fine, so I’m guessing you figured something out.

It is possible for you to have two root websites, but I think you require more than one WAN IP address, I might be wrong as I’ve never tried it that way personally. You would also have to give them different install directories (the public_html folder)

This is what I suggest and what I do personally.

example1.com --- /public_html (example 1 wordpress install in root)
example2.com --- /public_html/example2

I do this by creating the root website first, then the next website within its directory. I don’t know how this is done without anything other than Microsoft’s IIS, sorry.

I would only suggest option 2 if you are going to make 3 or more sub websites, because in that case you could make a root website with links to the sub sites in case anyone goes there on accident.

Also I +1 BobNwp’s comments

Is this feature your talking about enabled by a plugin?

It looks like you resolved your new thread on accident instead of this one. You’ll want to make a better title next time though. I would suggest using “How to disable starring messages” instead.

I would be glad to help. But you’ll want to make a new thread for a new issue. Before you mark this thread as “resolved”, add a link to your new thread and I’ll help you out.

I’m guessing the reason I’m the only one to have commented on this thread is because it is technically outside of the WordPress support forums range of support. But I wanted to help so instead of telling you to go somewhere else I helped.

This next question of your definitely sounds more WordPress based, and you’ll be more likely to receive help from others if you make a new thread. I don’t know the answers to your question unfortunately, but I’ll look into it and send you an answer on the new thread.

You should still have your backup, so even if you delete the current site all is not lost. Before even worrying about getting the old site you created already in there, you should concentrate on making sure that it works at all. Once all that is done THEN start customizing it.

You can try some of the things that are mentioned in this site. I found it when I googled the error you were getting.

If you have already tried to import your old wordpress content before getting wordpress working in general, then you have made a mistake. This is what your site should look like when its working. If you never saw this then you should delete what you’ve done so far (but don’t delete your backup of course) and start over. Then later on you can import the content from the backups you created. That’s assuming you exported and backed up the content as I suggested.

Or you could always just buy that program that you were using in the first place, but that would be last resort.

you need to add the name you gave the site. So if you named it test like I did then go to https://127.0.0.1/test. You will always need to add that test at the end since you gave it a name.

If you ever feel like you messed something up you can always just go into the IIS manager an remove the site, then use the WPI installer to try again. If you did that it would be easiest to leave everything default like in this picture. If you don’t give it a name, like “test”, then you won’t need to type it in after the address.

That just means you didn’t pick the default location for the site, which is alright. I’m glad you found it.

I’m not sure if WPI changed the location of the site in IIS, so I’ll tell you how to check and change it if needed. Here is a tutorial if you have an older version of IIS. I’m running version 8.5

1. Open IIS Manager by pressing windowskey+R and entering InetMgr.exe. Sometimes it will come up if you just search IIS.

2.Select your website as I have in my example. Once you see the menu on the right press “stop” to stop the website from running.

3. Click “advanced settings” (which is below stop) to see the window I have open in the pic.

4. Change the “physical path” to C:\documents\my website\ (because that’s where you said your website is located.

5. Start the server again, it might take up to 15 seconds to start up.

try accessing your server by going to https://127.0.0.1 in the web browser of the web server. You should hopefully see your site.

Also you could try accessing the site using your WAN IP instead of your domain name, if that works then it means you are having a DNS issue.

I’m guessing you are trying to access it through your domain name on the local network? Can you access the site by using the local IP address of the web server?

Skip to 6:30 in the video for where he’s setting up with HostGator. There site has changed a bit since the video was made but you want to go to hostgator.com/shared to get to the plans he’s mentioning.

I would suggest HostGator. Its a common practice among hosts but the longer period you buy initially the bigger the discount you get, after that its around $10/month for the hosting.

Here is a tutorial that primarily revolves around making a WordPress website, but it will also walk you through how to use HostGator and install WordPress on it initially. Its a great tutorial if you don’t know how to make WordPress sites also.

Yes, you can work on it without the internet. It is all managed right through the web browser. All you have to do is open your browser and type https://localhost/test. It doesn’t even need to be connected to any network for this method to work.

There’s no need to access the interface. What do you type into your web browser to get to your site? Your computer has an IP address, that is what other people need in order to access your site.

There are two kinds of IP addresses. A LAN IP (this is for the internal network, think of it like a room number in a dorm) and a WAN IP (This is the IP that other people on the internet see when they are looking towards you, like the street address.)

If you only need people on your network to access your site, then you just need the local IP. Here are some quick instructions on how to get your IP.
Press WindowsKey+R to bring up the run prompt then type CMD (or open command prompt), the type in ipconfig, your local IP address is the one labeled “ipv4 address”.

You know that picture I posted in my second to last comment? In the two boxes that I typed in `https://192.168.1.22/test/ is where your going to type you IP address instead of the one I used.

When you setup your wordpress with the WPI installer it gave you the option of making a site name, if you made one then you type it in after the IP address like I typed in “test”. If you don’t know what it is then look in the folder C:\inetpub\wwwroot\ in there will be a folder and that is your wordpress site, in my computer that folder’s name is “test”. (If you have folders such as “wp-admin”, “wp-content”, and “wp-includes” in that folder then you don’t need to worry about the site name, just the IP address.)

Now finally, when you are all done with that then others should be able to access your site. I’m going to use my ip and site name as the example. They just go in their web browser and type https://192.168.1.22/test and your wordpress sight will show up. All you have to do to edit this site is go to https://192.168.1.22/test/wp-admin from anywhere and you can edit your website. You were given the login information for this step when you setup wordpress in the WPI installer.

It really would have been best if you had just exported your site’s content into an XML file, then you could restore it more easily without having to restore the whole site, database and all.

This tutorial might also be helpful, I’d suggest moving down to the “restoring the data” section.