• My goal is to have a WP site I can bring with me on a location where there is no Internet connection, and to be able to share this WP site with other people in this location.
    This is for a trainer and his WP site is hosting courses and quiz and he wants the attendees to access the courses and answsers the quiz.

    Here is what I have done so far on my netbook running on Windows 10:
    Install USBWebServer (https://www.usbwebserver.net/en/), so I have Apache, PHP, MySQL and PHPMyAdmin on a USB key connected to my netbook.
    Install OStoto HotSpot (https://www.drivethelife.com/free-wifi-hotspot-creator.html), to use my netbook as a Wifi hotspot.
    Modify my host file with entry: 127.0.0.1 local.cms
    Setup a virtual host on USBWebServer in apache2/conf/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf, with, as my site is in root directory;
    <VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot “E:\USBWebserver v8.6\root”
    ServerName local.cms
    </VirtualHost>
    Install WordPress with WordPress URL and site URL set to “https://local.cms/wptest01&#8221;

    Here is what I have done on my Android Phone:
    Connect to the hotspot of my netbook.
    Define a proxy server with IP adress set to the IP adress of my netbook Wifi network card emulated by OStoto HotSpot.

    With all that set:
    From my netbook:
    I can access PHPMyAdmin locally using https://local.cms/phpmyadmin/, and the whole site works fine.
    I can access my WP site locally using https://local.cms/wptest01, and the whole site works fine, including admin.
    From my Android Smartphone:
    I can access static HTML pages such as https://local.cms/test.html, it works fine.
    I can access PHPMyAdmin using https://local.cms/phpmyadmin, and the whole site works fine.
    But unfortunately, I cannot access my WP site using https://local.cms/wptest01: I have no response from the netbook, and I have no errors in Apache error.log.

    So this seems specific to WP since static pages as well as PHPMyAdmin works fine.

    Here is the content of the .htaccess for wptest01:
    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /wptest01/
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /wptest01/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    # END WordPress

    I’m on this for almost one week, thanks in advance for your feedback.

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  • Thread Starter Eric Malalel

    (@teachlynx)

    One more info.
    I just tested from an iPad in Safari.
    I can see the URL in the adress bar which repeatedly display
    local.cmshttphttphttp with more and more http until I get this error message:
    Safari cannot open page because too many redirects have occured.

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