Change URL, lose CSS, but the header looks fine

  • Resolved RogerParkinson

    (@rogerparkinson)


    9 years, 9 months ago

    Everything is working just fine if I keep the initial URL allocated by Bluehost ie http://69.195.124.238/~shaynep1

    My style sheets work and my wp-admin login works. Also I can get to the site. I have a domain name pointing to the site (shayneparkinson.com) and that works okay too, up to a point. The domain gets to the initial page but all the links after that are using the IP address, and when I open a link in a new tab the browser address shows the IP address. Apart from IP address showing the only other problem is that http://shayneparkinson.com/wp-admin doesn’t take me to the dashboard (the IP address equivalent does) and none of the ‘edit page’ links work.

    Now, since I would rather eliminate that IP address from view I changed the siteURL and the home address to http://shayneparkinson.com. Then it all goes wrong. It fails to find the style sheets so, while the initial page does display it is very different from what I want. I can see stylesheet references on the resulting page and they have urls that look like this:

    href=”http://shayneparkinson.com/wp-content/themes/stargazer-slp/style.css?ver=1.0.0″

    Which is what I expect to see, and I can browse to them directly, so they are accessible. But not from this page. Also the wp-admin link no longer works, even from the IP address URL, so the only way I have to change it back is to use phpmyadmin to edit the two fields on the database (which works).
    However, while it is still wrong, I can see this near the top of of the html:

    <frame src=”http://69.195.124.238/~shaynep1&#8243; frameborder=”0″>

    Which suggests that there is something else I need to change for it to recognise my domain properly. I did (of course) look at Changing the Site URL and I’ve mostly been using phpmyadmin to switch the fields. Though I did try the ‘Relocate Method’. It would not present the login page so I don’t know if it did anything or not.

    I’m switching it back to use the IP address because that works better. But can anyone tell me what I’ve missed here?
    Thanks for your help
    Roger

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  • Thread Starter RogerParkinson

    (@rogerparkinson)

    9 years, 9 months ago

    The frame I mentioned is being added from my domain forwarding, so not actually a wordpress thing. So I have reworked the DNS stuff (according to this site) and now I still see the IP address but the login is working and so is the style sheet, and the frame is gone).

    Next I changed the home and siteURL fields to my domain name (it’s now http://www.shayneparkinson.com) and… everythng works.

    So the thing I had wrong was the DNS stuff. That was adding a frame to the html and (I think) that was screwing the css and the wp-admin.

    I’ll mark this as fixed (& Mrs is happy, it’s her blog, not mine).

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