when I move around through the pages everything looks ok…

No, everything doesn’t look “OK”… at least not what is normal with standard WordPress installations.

When I hover over ANY link on your site, including the HELLO WORLD post, I see your DDNS domain aegir-wkcqhwntrc.dynamic-m.com:8082. This means you installed WordPress with this DDNS domain, and it’s hard-coded in your database.

Also, when I click on ANY of the links, the URL in the address bar doesn’t change at all — ALL pages on the site show just the www.smartconnectedcommunity.com domain in the address bar. This means there’s some cloaking going on here.

… but when I go to login or register it uses the ddns name, not the site name –

See above.

To fix your “several problems”, begin with addressing the URL issue.

Since this is a fresh installation, you could simply wipe everything and begin a fresh WordPress installation by invoking the installation wizard from the https://www.smartconnectedcommunity.com domain, and NOT the DDNS domain.

Alternatively (if you don’t want to nuke the existing installation), dig into the WordPress database and change all occurrences of the DDNS domain to your https://www.smartconnectedcommunity.com domain. If you’re able to access the dashboard, you should use a plugin like the Velvet Blues Update URLs plugin to do this.

So i just brought up another url with similar problems (clean install)…

the install sets the following:

‘1’, ‘siteurl’, ‘https://aegir-wkcqhwntrc.dynamic-m.com:8083’, ‘yes’
‘2’, ‘home’, ‘https://aegir-wkcqhwntrc.dynamic-m.com:8083’, ‘yes’

if i change the url to https://www.innovationcorner.org the site does not come up.

1) if i leave them like they are i can navigate through the site with https://www.innovationcorner.org i can navigate the site but i am not able to see the permalinks. And, if i go to an admin page i get redirectged (open a new page) and the url becomes https://aegir-wkcqhwntrc.dynamic-m.com:8083. and when i go back to the site with https://aegir-wkcqhwntrc.dynamic-m.com:8083 i get the permalinks appended.

what is a reasonable solution for this, i have tried everything including bring this up under Apache2 to no avail.

i have even considered a reverse proxy but not sure that will even work

I am sure i have missed something easy but at the moment am very perplexed.

I have updated the database through mysql workbench so the url’s are correct, also to no avail .

any help wold be greatly appreciated.

roger…