Definix

Thank you for trying.

As stated earlier, I know how this is done, just not in WordPress. We are currently hosing 26 websites. We are looking at using a hosting solution like WordPress so we can allow our customers access to update their sites themselves.

I can get to all 26 sites both internally and externally, but the WordPress site is not working and I am not sure where it is failing. I do not know where to go to tell IIS when it gets a request for test or https://www.test.com to point it to the WordPress directory. I could if it were a site I created, but I don’t see where you set that for WordPress in IIS.

The server is at address 10.10.10.11. All my DNS entries point to 10.10.10.11. They all work, except the wordpress and my phpMyAdmin console site.

OH. I have multiple sites on this server. I can get to them by pointing say for instance CDCB to 10.10.10.11 in DNS and then edit the properties of the CDCB website to point CDCB and https://www.CDCB.com using port 80 to the CDCB site. Then I just enter CDCB in a browser from any workstation and it goes directly to the site. I dont know where to edit the settings for WordPress in IIS so that when I give DNS a value it will know where to direct the request.

To further test it:

I have changed the phpMyAdmin wp_options table back to https://10.10.10.11/wordpress/

Doing this makes both the server and the workstation show a 404 error.

OK. So far…

I have changed the phpMyAdmin wp_options table back to https://localhost/wordpress/

I then created the test.txt file with abc for the content.

On the server I have https://localhost/wordpress/test.txt and showing abc in the browser.
On my workstation I have https://10.10.10.11/wordpress/test.txt and am showing the 404 error.

To be honest, yes and no.

I guess the part I am getting lost on is pointing correctly to the site. I have tried changing in the wp_options in phpMyAdmin and changing the wp-config.php directly making the path https://10.10.10.11/wordpress/ and trying https://test/com. Both times I get the 404 error from a web browser and if I right click the wordpress folder and select browse the page loads but without using any formatting. It is just listing the content down the left side of the page. I change it back to localhost and at least when accessed on the server it will be following the loaded theme layout.

But now, if I tell it to go to the home page I get sent out to https://test.com. I don’t know where to look to change this back so it doesn’t send me out to the Internet.

I didn’t think about there actually being a https://test.com, which was very stupid on my part.

I have decided at this point to delete phpMyAdmin and Wropress then try to install again.

I must have something somewhere conflicting with the address. I follow the instructions in the link you provided and I basically get the same results as I did when changing the localhost to the IP address.

Add these lines to the wp-config.php

update_option(‘siteurl’,’https://test.com’);
update_option(‘home’,’https://test.com’);

Load the page then remove the lines like the instructions say.

I go to the phpMyadmin console and look at the wp_options table and it is showing siteurl https://test.com

I was able to find the settings in the phpMyAdmin console under the wordpress database wp_options table. I changed it back to localhost and everything works now.

Well… I am back to my original problem.

OK. I tried changing https://localhost/wordpress to https://ServerIP/wordpress using the admin panel. I can no longer browse the site.

I am currently trying to locate the file that holds the setting so I can manually change it back since I can no longer log into the site.