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1. saebbi
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hello everybody.

   I have been looking around with WordPress for a while but I finally decided to go try it out.

   I have a server at my home, and I dont use that computer to create blog, e.t.c. on my WordPress blog.

   So, the address on my server is for instance, 192.168.1.36.

   My laptop computer, which i will be using to edit my WordPress page is 192.168.1.33

   Any ways, how will I be able to browse the page both by 192.168.1.33, -----36 and from outside my local area network?

   I´m sorry if this is a common question, but please help me.

2. dalebert77
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   This isn't a wordpress question - its a networking question and the answer could be complicated - your ISP would have to allow port 80 to your house, you would need a router that can handle nat'ing, you would need to setup your .36 address as either the box in the DMZ or just forward port 80 traffic to it. -- If you don't know what DMZ, NAT, or port 80 means, then this might be a bigger job than you want to tackle without an IT friend.

   It's not a lot of work - but there is a lot of know-how required.

3. saebbi
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   My ports are all open, and I run a website http://kingdomcrawlers.com on the same server. Only, E107 which I run KingdomCrawlers on allows me to browse the website with both the localhost/kc and 192.168.1.36/kc and my domain http://kingdomcrawlers.com

   But with WordPress I can only go to it with localhost/wordpress

   If I try 192.168.1.36/wordpress I get an error.

   And if I try kingdomcrawlers.com/wordpress I get an error.

   It has to do with the WordPress and its capabilities of being browsed both locally and internationally.

   Is there a setting?

4. dalebert77
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   What do you have on the Admin/Options/General page under WordPress address?

5. saebbi
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   http://localhost/kc/savage/wordpress

   To be able to reach it from outside my network, I have it as

   http://kingdomcrawlers.com/savage/wordpress

   But I cant select both at once...

   And I dont feel like changing it every time I want to write a blog from within my local connection...

6. dalebert77
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   can you get to the non-wordpress site at http://kingdomcrawlers.com from inside your network? I assume that domain name points to the same server you have the wp blog on. Do you manage DNS inside your network, or is that all handled through your ISP?

   It could be as simple as a host file entry on your laptop/desktop that points kindomcrawlers.com to the internal 192.x.x.x address. Assuming you are running windows, your host file is at:

   c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

   There is no file extention like .txt on the host file, so it will ask you to pick a program to open it with - use notepad and put a line like this in the host file:

   192.168.1.36 kingdomcrawlers.com

   Save it - update wp to point to the proper domain name (not localhost or 192.x.x.x) and try it.

7. saebbi
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I can not get my site within the network with KingdomCrawlers.

   The domain is just a redirecting url for my IP address/kc

   myip/kc would be http://kingdomcrawlers.com

   myip/kc/savage/wordpress would be http://kingdomcrawlers.com/savage/wordpress

8. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You are either local(host) or on the net. You can't have both because the two URI values in Options > General are stored in the database.

9. saebbi
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   BUT, I can do so with the E107 web system which I use on KingdomCrawlers.com

   Why can WordPress not have a like-ish option?

10. moshu
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    Read it again...

11. saebbi
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    So in E107 the url values are stored in cookies, or cache?

12. moshu
    Member
    Posted 4 years ago #

    I don't know. Ask them. We are the WP forum.

13. otter9099
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    My ports are all open, and I run a website http://kingdomcrawlers.com on the same server. Only, E107 which I run KingdomCrawlers on allows me to browse the website with both the localhost/kc and 192.168.1.36/kc and my domain http://kingdomcrawlers.com

    But with WordPress I can only go to it with localhost/wordpress

    If I try 192.168.1.36/wordpress I get an error.

    And if I try kingdomcrawlers.com/wordpress I get an error.

    It has to do with the WordPress and its capabilities of being browsed both locally and internationally.

    Is there a setting?

    I have the same problem, and it doesn't make sense to me why wordpress takes it upon itself to redirect itself.

    I have my server in the basement out of the way. I don't want to edit wordpress in the basement, I want to do it from my laptop on the same network or when away over the web.

    Are there any solutions to this, I find it hard to believe that we are the only two people trying to do this.

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