Site URL problems

  • I am a new user/admin and have installed WordPress (Awesome blog product!) on my Windows 2003 IIS 6.0 server. After upgrading my MySQL and installing PHP, I downloaded and installed WordPress and everything went smoothly. I installed it to the directory of my default web page under InetPub/wwwroot/wp/. I began the customization of the blog and decided I would take a look at a pc on the network but not the server. I found a couple of problems and looked around on the forums and nothing seemed to work exactly right.

    1) When I call up the site (www.shastalibraries.org/wp) I get the data but no theme, and after looking at the source code, I see that it pointed to https://localhost/wp. I changed that in the general options as well as the blog site url, and immediately get locked out of wordpress by a popup window asking for a username and password on the server. However, my pc that I wanted to look at the page shows it fine with the exception of the header graphic is missing. In addition, if I use a different url for the site and blog, I get locked out on both the pc on the network and the server.

    2) As I cannot get into WordPress on the server due to the username and password issue, I use Navicat to change the url in the table wp_options back to localhost for the site url and blog (home) url, and can log back in as admin on the server.

    While I know it is some install issue that I did incorrectly, and after trying all the solutions I can find on the forums, I was wondering if someone would have a better idea as to my particular situation. Any help regarding this issue would be greatly appreciated. I love the software so far in terms of use and can’t wait to implement it for the staff and other uses here!

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  • Change the site url and blog url back to the domain name, then on the server itself edit the hosts file and point the domain name to the ip of the server then you can access it from there as well.

    Thread Starter grvogt

    (@grvogt)

    Unfortunately when I said new admin, I meant really new ??
    Where would the hosts file be or how would one access it. After doing a search I see several files but none really point the domain to the IP that I can see.

    Thread Starter grvogt

    (@grvogt)

    I found the hosts file under C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc and added the IP (66.244.37.98) followed by the domain (https://www.shastalibraries.org). I also tried https://www.shastalibraries.org but no joy. It does show up again on the network pc but still without the header.jpg.

    Thread Starter grvogt

    (@grvogt)

    Actually found out why it wasn’t working. I had followed a walkthrough and it had me create a virtual link which was not needed as I installed in the root directory of the default web site.

    I still can’t get the header image to display remotely but will look at the forums for more answers.

    Thanks

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