mynameiscontra

Hi George,

thank you for you reply! Please find the answers to your follow-up questions below:

1. I am currently using localhost in the URL so: “localhost/NAME/wp-admin/index.php”.
2. by “outside” I meant from the public internet, I am not using the same URL as in 1).

Okay thank you for your explanation. I did already try to change the URL inside the wordpress settings to something other than localhost but this leads to me not being able to even use wordpress anymore, im guessing that the paths dont match so im logged out. Only way for me to continue to use wordpress was by changing the values back to localhost via the mysql database.

Do I have to install wordpress anew? I was under the impression that even if wordpress is installed using localhost, it’s an option to later change this, is this not the case?

I tried again to take out the localhost from the “siteurl” setting in wordpress, this leads to me being logged out and only after changing the “siteurl” value again via the database can I use wordpress again.

Even with changing the DocumentRoot Directory value inside the httpd.conf to point directly to the website-folder which contains my wordpress installation I cannot use wordpress anymore. With this change at least I am getting the message “the content for this page is empty or has not been saved. Please edit this page and ‘Save’ the contents builder.” So it seems like its pointing towards the right website at least, but now I also cannot use wordpress anymore.

I also tried changing the wordpress setting to not contain localhost in combination with the DocumentRoot Directory value pointing directly to the website folder but also did not get a positive result.

I’m sure I am misunderstanding something basic or made a stupid error during setup or something, it’s my first time doing this, please bear with me.
In any way, thank you very very much for your help George! It is very much appreciated!