Problems using WordPress on Apple OSX WebServer

  • kashifamin

    (@kashifamin)


    16 years, 2 months ago

    Hello,

    Please could someone help/advise on the following:

    I am trying to install WordPress to be used as a blog, just for users within our company. To facilitate this, I installed WordPress (latest version) onto my MAC using the Personal Web Sharing facility on OSX (which is really an Apache server).

    WordPress installed and works fine at the following URL:

    http://localhost/wordpress/

    The WordPress files sit in a folder under the following directory:

    /Library/WebServer/Documents/wordpress/

    The problem I am having is that now that it works on this MAC, I need others in the company to be able to view the blog on their MACs. I tried to do this by going onto another MAC and entering the IP address of the machine that has wordpress on it, as follows:

    http://10.52.178.201/wordpress/

    However, this only causes errors saying:

    The requested URL/wordpress/ was not found on this server.

    Can anyone please help…?

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  • xzeed

    (@xzeed)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    look in ur mysql db which path is given for your wordpress installation.

    I use the same system as you (i.e. http://pandora.local:8888/wordpress )

    I use MAMP with MacOSX Shared Webservice. Set MAMP Ports to :8888 so u can reach ur webserver via http://username.local:8888

    Thread Starter kashifamin

    (@kashifamin)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks for the reply.

    I tried using MAMP and it did work. But I ran into the same problem (i.e. getting others to be able to see the blog on their machines).

    “look in ur mysql db which path is given for your wordpress installation.”

    Sorry for sounding slow, but where would I find this?

    Thread Starter kashifamin

    (@kashifamin)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Since I too am now using MAMP, you mentioned username. In the wp-config.php file, MAMP tells us to input the following settings:

    DB NAME: wordpress
    DB USERNAME: root
    DB Password: root
    DB Host: localhost

    Based on these details, I try and access the blog using the following URL from other machines:

    http://root.local:8888/wordpress/

    It doesn’t work as yet.

    Any suggestions please?

    xzeed

    (@xzeed)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    @kashifamin:

    wp_options>site_url

    did u check web-sharing in ur OSX Settings?
    did u change the htdocs path of MAMP to OSX htdocs folder?

    I wrote sth up for you:
    http://horttcore.de/2008/02/07/shared-network-webserver-mit-macosx-leopard/

    Dunno about ur german skillz, but I bet the pictures will help you 😉

    Thread Starter kashifamin

    (@kashifamin)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Hi xzeed,

    Thanks for the link.

    Followed this closely, but I am still having problems 🙁

    Let me give you a breakdown of my current settings.

    MAMP’s htdocs and my wordpress is sitting in the following location:

    /Library/WebServer/Documents/htdocs/wordpress/

    MAMP Preferences are:

    Apache Port: 8888
    MySql Port: 8889

    My machine is called “studioblog”. I try and access this blog from other machines using the following URL:

    http://studioblog.local:8888/wordpress/

    What I get from all of the above is this:

    “The Web site cannot be found”

    “The site you are looking for is unavailable due to its identification configuration settings…..”

    Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

    xzeed

    (@xzeed)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Mmh… what do u see when u try to reach http://studioblog.local/ there should be a test site at least.

    Can u reach MAMPs local starts page, there isa link in the gui.

    Thread Starter kashifamin

    (@kashifamin)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    I don’t see anything except the error page that starts with:

    “The Web site cannot be found”

    “The site you are looking for is unavailable due to its identification configuration settings…..”

    Very frustrating!!!

    Yes I can reach MAMP’s local start page fine. In fact, on the “studioblog” machine, MAMP & WordPress work fine.

    I just can’t access the blog from other machines…?

    xzeed

    (@xzeed)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Thats very strange, try to get a look at the weekend in the configuration files, maybe I’ll find a ways to help you :-/

    Thread Starter kashifamin

    (@kashifamin)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks xzeed. Appreciate it.

    Thread Starter kashifamin

    (@kashifamin)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    Hi there,

    Tried something new, but still no luck!

    I’ve installed MAMP in the ‘Sites’ folder on the “studioblog” machine so that now it sits in the following directory:

    Users/kashif/Sites/htdocs/wordpress/

    Now, again, wordpress site works fine on the host machine. When I try to access it from another machine, I try using the following address:

    http://”IP Address”/~kashif/htdocs/wordpress/
    or
    http://studioblog.local/~kashif/htdocs/wordpress/

    What I get from this is:

    “Error establishing a database connection”

    Any ideas what’s going wrong?

    Kashif.

    xzeed

    (@xzeed)

    16 years, 2 months ago

    that sounds really wired,
    what is in ur wp-config?

    Thread Starter kashifamin

    (@kashifamin)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Xzeed,

    I’ll check my wp-config and get back to you.

    It is weird isn’t it 🙁

    Thanks,
    Kashif.

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