shishir.hegde

Hi Peter,

I tried almost everything to make wordpress work but was unsuccessful at it. The reverse proxy server in NDSU is creating the problem and wordpress also does not have any solution how to handle reverse proxy settings. Hence, I am developing the website without wordpress using HTML files. Even I had heard that some people had run older versions of wordpress but I dont know anyone who has done it or whether it is a rumor.

Thanks,
Shishir

Hi,

For $_SERVER[‘HTTP_HOST’] i got the value shingle.ndsu.nodak.edu:8222.

I tried another variable $_SERVER[‘HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST’] which gave me the value https://www.ndsu.edu.

But i do not know how and where to use it to make it work.

Thanks,
Shishir

Hi bcworkz,

Appreciate your detailed reply. I had already used the search and replace utility to replace all the shingle references to the https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/nrg but it did not work. I verified all the tables after replacing and found all the references to be replaced but still does not work. I guess the problem is in the wordpress code files and there should be a fix either in the wp-config file or any other file to handle a reverse proxy server environment.

Thanks,
Shishir

Thanks a lot. Hoping to get this resolved.

Would appreciate if you could find some help. Thanks a lot.

-Shishir

My admin says this

https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/nrg is set up as a reverse proxy (on spider.ndsu.nodak.edu) to shingle.ndsu.nodak.edu:$SOMEPORT.
Access to $SOMEPORT on shingle is only allowed from spider. WordPress (or one of its plugins) does not know it is behind
a reverse proxy, and is returning shingle.ndsu.nodak.edu in certain URLs instead of https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/nrg. This is a problem
you will have to solve within WordPress itself.

Could you please help me with this?
Even if I manually change the URL to
https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/nrg in tables wp_options and wp_posts the site does not work. However the admin page works.

Thanks,
Shishir

Allright I will check with my admin and let you know the update.

Thanks,
Shishir

I used the following URL-
https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/nrg/wp-admin/install.php

Thanks,
Shishir

Thanks for the quick reply esmi.

During installation I followed the following steps
1. A folder was created for me on the server to copy my files by admin.
2. A database and user also was created by admin.
3. I copied wordpress files into the folder on the server.
4. I ran the install script where I had to give the database name, database user name, database password, table prefix.
5. Installation was successfull.

I did not give URL anywhere. Where do i provide the URL during installation? Also, the admin page is accessible using the URL
https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/nrg/wp-login.php. Why only the site is not working?