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1. PitterPat
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   Just installed WP and it runs fine from localhost.

   But I can't reach it from any other host.

   As far as I can tell, this isn't a firewall error. I can reach other applications at /var/www/html/* such as index.html and phpMyAdmon/index.php.

   I've searched syslog, auth.log, httpd/access_log, httpd/error_log, mysqlmanager and can't find any errors or other messages.

   It's not a router problem either b/c I can't reach WP from within the LAN other than from localhost.

   And it's not a php error b/c it does work from localhost.

   Any ideas of what's wrong or where to look would be greatly appreciated.

   Thanks,

   PP

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   what are you using to connect to it from localhost?

   http:// <what>

   thats the question that you didnt answer, and the most important one.

3. PitterPat
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   http://localhost/Wordpress

   Thanks,

   PP

4. whooami
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   is that what you are using to connect to it from outside?

   if so, thats why.

   My localhost, is the box I am on right this second..

   does that give you a clue to the problem?

   what you need to do is use an IP, and you should have set that up when you installed -- OR if the IP changes alot than you probably want to use a service like dyndns or such to map your everchanging IP to a non changing domain name.

   and just like the IP, wordpress beed to be made aware via the siteurl setting.

5. PitterPat
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   Sorry but I don't understand that.

   When I'm on localhost I use http://localhost/Wordpress

   When I'm NOT on localhost but still on the LAN I use http://&lt;192.168.x.x&gt;/Wordpress (that's the LAN side IP of the server).

   When I'm outside of the LAN I use http://&lt;my WAN IP>/Wordpress (of course I substitute my real WAN side ip).

   By comparison, each of the above URL's works fine if I substitute phpMyAdmin for Wordpress.

   What am I missing?

   Thanks,

   PP

6. whooami
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   youre missing the fact that you cant have all 3 out of the box like that with WP - thats what. when you installed wordpress, let me guess, you used localhost for the siteurl..

   WP is not phpmyadmin.

   Change it to 192.x.x.x and see if the other 2 dont break unless you have 192.x.x.x in your /etc/hosts file

   Change it to a routable IP and see if they dont all 3 work.

   You can do all three, but to do takes changing a core file, and frankly I dont see why you would want to.

   you could probably also use ipmasqing...

7. PitterPat
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   YES! I get it now.

   Thanks!

   PP

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