Hosting a Wordress site myself and stumbling on host header info

Hello –

I want to build a new website on my own servers and once I understand what I’m doing, I want to make it visible over the public Internet. So for right now, everything is internal.

My web host is a Fedora 18 system at IP Address 10.10.10.4. My website content for now is a couple of test pages and lives in a directory tree under /usr/share/wordpress/. My WordPress config files live in /etc/httpd/conf.d.

I set up an internal DNS name, https://www.infrasupport.local., pointing to 10.10.10.4, and have a corresponding reverse DNS entry.

When I launch a browser and go to https://10.10.10.4/wordpress/wp-admin, I can login to the WordPress dashboard and tinker with content. My experiments show up on my website as expected as long as I stick with raw IP Addresses.

And when I go to https://www.infrasupport.local, I also see my latest website handiwork. So far so good. Well, sort of. My website has a menu and a couple of test pages. When I click on any menu item, it goes to 10.10.10.4/wordpress/{page}, instead of https://www.infrasupport.local/{page}.

Here is my biggest challenge. When I go to https://www.infrasupport.local/wp-admin, I get my website header and the bottom of the page tells me about an “embararrasing” page not found error. It should send me to the dashboard login, just like 10.10.10.4/wordpress/wp-admin does.

What I hope to accomplish is, put together a usable prototype website, then eventually make it live by setting up public DNS entries to a .com domain and doing appropriate NAT on my firwewall. This means the names will be .local while I’m learning and developing and will transition to .com when I feel good about making it public.

I think I am missing something in my config files, but not sure what. My httpd.conf is right out of the box from the Fedora RPM. Here is what wordpress.conf looks like:

‘[root@webf18 conf.d]# more wordpress.conf
Alias /wordpress /usr/share/wordpress

<Directory /usr/share/wordpress>
## AllowOverride Options
AllowOverride All
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
# Apache 2.4
Require local
Require ip 10.10.10
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
# Apache 2.2
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from ::1
</IfModule>
</Directory>

<Directory /usr/share/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/akismet>
<FilesMatch “\.(php|txt)$”>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from all
</FilesMatch>
</Directory>’

I also set up infrasupport.conf, like this:

‘<VirtualHost https://www.infrasupport.local:80&gt;
ServerAdmin [email protected]
DocumentRoot /usr/share/wordpress/index.php
ServerName https://www.infrasupport.local:80
## ErrorLog “/usr/share/wordpress/logs/error_log.log”
## CustomLog “/usr/share/wordpress/logs/access_log.log” combined

Alias /wordpress /usr/share/wordpress

<Directory /usr/share/wordpress>
## AllowOverride Options
AllowOverride All
<IfModule mod_authz_core.c>
# Apache 2.4
Require local
Require ip 10.10.10
</IfModule>
<IfModule !mod_authz_core.c>
# Apache 2.2
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All
Allow from 127.0.0.1
Allow from ::1
</IfModule>
</Directory>

</VirtualHost>’

Hopefully I did those backticks properly so the config files are not butchered.