Installer issue – function wp_guess_url() guesses wrong

  • There seems to be a symlink-related issue with function wp_guess_url() in wp-includes/functions.php that causes the WordPress 3.7 installer script to create a wrong URL on the initial WordPress setup page on our webservers.

    Webserver setup:
    CentOS 5.10, Apache Version 2.2.24, PHP Version 5.3.26 (via custom suExec CGI), Apache Virtualhost DocumentRoot for “domain.com” is “/homepages/domain.com/”, WordPress 3.7 installed in “/homepages/domain.com/wordpress”.

    I can access WordPress in my browser under “https://domain.com/wordpress/” and see that it complains “There doesn’t seem to be a wp-config.php file.” However, the button “Create Configuration File” links to URL “https://domain.com/wordpress/vrmd/wp-admin/setup-config.php”, but the URL should be “https://domain.com/wordpress/wp-admin/setup-config.php” (without “vrmd”).

    I guess the problem is that the “/homepages”-directory on our webservers is a symlink to “/vrmd/homepages” and the Apache DocumentRoot uses this symlink. The WordPress installer uses function wp_guess_url() to determine filesystem path and URL, and two different PHP functions are used to determine the path of the current script that return different results:

    dirname(__FILE__) returns “/vrmd/homepages/domain.com/wordpress”
    dirname($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] returns “/homepages/domain.com/wordpress”

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  • I had the same issue and submitted a ticket based on this… for now the way to resolve is too put

    define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://www.yourdomain.co.uk');
define('WP_HOME', 'https://www.yourdomain.co.uk');

    into your wp-config.php

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