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thank you.

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I figured it out. I am now running on my server on my own computer from my own isp with local and wan connections and it SMOKES!.
Just thought you’d like to know. ??

Bye!

As much as I would love to stay with wordpress, I’ve decided to stop wasting my time trying to find a solution for this problem. These are serious bugs and if you don’t care enough to help rather than tell me to go somewhere else then I’ll be setting up DNN tonight. At least I know it will run without bugs or blatherers who’d rather make things difficult for others than to help fix serious problems with what is supposed to be serious software.

This is purely a BIG BUG in the wordpress programming. I wonder if this might cause some confusion in the url programming of wordpress.

Adding to the above, when I bring up the page mydomain.com is correctly listed in it. If you point on any link on the page my IP#:81 shows in the page bar below.

At noip they have a couple options in the manage hosts area. One is Mask URL (which I usually check). The help link says “If checked the browsers location bar will show only your hostname, not the page they have been redirected to. This is done with a frameset.”

The 2nd item is Enable Wildcard. The help link says “If checked the browsers location bar will show only your hostname, not the page they have been redirected to. This is done with a frameset.”

I’m wondering if either of these two options could be causing this.
I am going to try removing them and see if anything changes.

Thanks for your question. Here is the exact format of what I do and what happens: I tried to make it as short as possible yet not leave out any important details. I very much appreciate any help, thank you!

The site is single not multisite. It’s also a root install all wp files and folders are inside htdocs in
xampp or www in uniServerz. xampp install done like this: (be sure to remember all the input)

Run the xampp installer, start the servers, run localhost:81 (since I use port 81), choose language, run phpmyadmin from link inside xampp, create a database, edit the database priviliges and add user, host, password and privileges (Go)… done with phpMyAdmin.

Install wp: delete all files (not folders) inside xampp htdocs folder and copy wp files and folders into it. Run localhost:81 and the wp-config.php installer runs, answer the questions (note: it’s smart to change the Table Prefix to something else here). Once complete the wp “Run the install” shows up, answer the blog questions and click “install wordpress”. If you get a popup “Cancle – Try Again – Continue” hit continue until complete. Ok done… a window appears asking to log in the site.

Go to Settings > General: You will see in the (URL) fields “https://localhost:81”. Everything will work perfectly at this point; this also where the trouble begins. If I change these URL fields to https://mydomain.com (and correspondingly change the Servername in apache httpd.conf to mydomain.com:81), and hit Save Changes, once saved I get a login page but all CSS is missing and when I type my admin name and password in the fields and hit Log In the same page comes back again asking with empty Username and Password fields, so basically I lose the site. If I Click on MySQL/Admin in the xampp control panel phpMyAdmin runs where in the database (options) I can change back the site and home URLs so I can enter the site again localhost:81.

Now if I login to the site and change the URL fields to https://mycurrentIPnumbers:81, the site operates
perfectly except certain paths have the ip#’s as part of the reference to the path which cause problems
especially if I move the site to a different computer. I can probably figure out a fix for that but the
question remains, why does the WP URL work great with a hard coded IP number but will not work with it’s equivilent
domainName.com? I’ll leave the (vanilla) site up for now if anyone would like to take a gander.

Thanks for listening and thanks for anyones help.

Thanks for the assist. I have read those docs more than twice and tried those suggestions several times (I’m sure I know them by memory now) over several installs of the software. Every time I install the software my ip#’s (https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:81 the 81 is because I use a port 81 redirect with noip) are in those (URL) fields. Do you think because I am running a port redirect this could be causing the trouble?

Thanks…

I’ve been trying to setup wp as a production server and have everything working except I can not get it to allow my domain.com name in the site and home urls. It allows the associated ip#s but not the domain name itself. This causes internal problems with certain plugins. Have you any idea if it’s possible to get the program to use domain.com? I have read tuts on moving your site, changing the name of your site and others that say you can place update_option(‘siteurl’ etc for site and home in functions.php but it simply will not work when I try it. Addition of the domain in wp-config.php will not work either no matter how I do it. Am I missing some secrete code here? I would sure appreciate some help with this. I’ve been hitting my head against the perverbial wall for months trying so please someone help me. Thanks and a million blessings to anyone that can lead me to success with this.

Why does the phpMyAdmin siteurl = WordPress Address(URL) and correspondingly phpMyAdmin HOME = WordPress Address (URL)?

Shouldn’t this be the opposite. And when I set one whether in General, wp-config, functions.php or where ever, won’t that screw up other settings in the database if they’re backwards?

How could something so obvious like this be missed or am I getting so old I am seeing double LOL? Is it possible to post a pic or two here?

Thank you again for your help.

Connecting to the server is not the problem, we already connect to the server just fine. The problem is when I place https://www.myurl.com inside the SITE and WORDPRESS(home) in the General Options fields the site becomes broken and unavailable.

All tutorials state to place the URL in those fields provided one exists but in my case it does not work. The result is ip address numbers all over the place in the codes, view source etc.

Why is this? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks so much,
Joe

Hi RossMitchel, I read the wiki article and I’m pretty sure I understand it. If I point the url to localhost as you suggest above then all I’ll be doing is using the website locally and then my partner will not be able to log in and work on the site. Unless you have some other understanding about this I don’t believe it will help in my case.

I appreciate your contribution in trying to help with my problem so thank you for it.

Joe

Hello RossMitchell,

I’m not sure how that can help with this problem but I’ll go check it out right now.

Thanks for much.
Joe

Hello thanks for your reply and help.
The https://103.32.10.83:81/ is a fictious address I made up as an example, sorry if I caused confusion but the URL link at the bottom of the page is correct. Also, I don’t use a router on this particular system, I’m connected directly to the internet through broadband.

Yes I would like my url to be in WAU and SITE because I believe having only IP#s in those fields is causing IP#s every place else. Also, everything I read on the forums regarding these fields say to put your URL there i.e., define( ‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘https://example.com/wordpress’ );
is a great resource page regarding wp-config.php.
When I try to do this the url is not accepted and is changed to the numbered version of my URL.

I do not have an entry regarding my site in the hosts file, I assume you mean a localhost entry pointing back to my site from my URL ? Remember I am using this on WAN not localhost.

Yes it occurs on other computers. I don’t understand your last sentence sorry.

Thanks for the assistance,
Joe

So I have to Edit the post above.
Unless I have the numeral IP:81 in both HOME and SITE the website will not operate correctly. I thought the home would work with the url but I was mistaken. It will allow login and the use of editing within the settings etc but it will not allow me to visit site while logged in. Currently I have numerals in both fields.