RossMitchell

Would you please describe what you did ? This way this support thread becomes more useful to the wider community.
Also if you think it is appropriate would you mark this thread as closed.

You might be able to get a piece of your LAN software to map/forward the global IP to the RaPi’s LAN server. Can the router/modem be configured to forward the global IP when it is use on the LAN side ?

Now for a solution that will work:
– Configure the DHCP server in your router/modem to permanently assign a local IP to the RaPi, say “192.168.1.31”
– buy a domain name, say “myuniquename.com”
– set the domain name to resolve to your global IP
– configure the RaPi to use VirtualHost technique, details here:
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/vhosts/name-based.html
This will entail add VirtualHost directives in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/001-local
Something like:

<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www
ServerName myuniquename.com
ServerAlias www.myuniquename.com
</VirtualHost>

– do the “Moving WordPress” procedure and reconfigure the RaPi to use the domain name in site address and WordPress address.
The website is now accessible from the world using the domain name, now for all the PCs on the LAN.
– on each PC on the LAN that will access the RaPi site, add these line to the “hosts” file:

192.168.1.31	myuniquename.com
192.168.1.31	www.myuniquename.com

On the RaPi this would be:

127.0.0.1	myuniquename.com
127.0.0.1	www.myuniquename.com

Details on the hosts file for various flavors of Windows/Linux/Mac at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)

whether to go with a WHM Reseller account, or Hosting Reseller account.

What are the relative costs and what quotas of domains / disk space / bandwidth etc does it provide ?
The charm of being a “WHM Reseller” (which I think is my level), is that The hosting software and management of the server is all done for me. I don’t have to manage the server, or administer it beyond allocating quotas to each cPanel account.

The way I always claim sites for my google webmaster ID is to place the file with the very long name that includes the ID and has contenst with the same ID, I put this file into the website root directory. Minimum impact and minimum disclosure. Not sure if this also works for youtube.

Enrolling multiple client websites inside a shared cPanel account is not a great idea. There is not sufficient separation between sites, they all share the same bucket of file space, bandwidth quota, email accounts, etc.

A much better approach is to subscribe yourself as a WHM reseller, you would create a cPanel account for each of your clients, controlling their quotas, even give them dedicated IP addresses, etc. This way the sites and domains are strongly independent. Only a few of my clients have ever used their cPanel logins themselves, that is something I still do. Using the WHM login and management panel I can flip between a cPanel screen for all of the accounts, it also give me a firm foundation for charging them for their hosting services.

There are various ways the code could be organised. It could be in a plugin or your functions.php where it would register shortcodes. OR it could be in a custom page template, provided it is in a distinctly named file there may not even be a need to create a child theme.

I will describe a page which does both search form and result display table, you can fiddle the search terms and submit it and get a refreshed display, the rest of the page is normal WordPress, normal header, menu, sidebars, footer etc.

So in your theme folder, make a copy of page.php and call it “booksearch.php”, most of it will be unchanged, but you will be adding a good deal of code to it, find the place just after “the loop” but still inside the div with class “the-content”, add code that does this:
– first add a form that contains the search fields, say “Author, title, edition, first year and last year”, this form will have a SEARCH button which does a submit using post data to an URL which is the same page as this page. In laying out the html for this form, test if the POST variables are set, if they are echo them into the form values, if not set then choose default values to search on.
– next you do an SQL search using the fields from the form (or defaults), maybe you limit the results to say a hundred rows.
– THEN EITHER:
a) there are no results and you display “<p>No books match your search.</p>”
OTHERWISE
b) Output a table header and column titles, then for each result output a table row with the results. Then you close the table.

Many elaborations are possible such as:
– javascript to clear the search form.
– pagination of search results.
– a link in each row to edit that row, participate in a blog on that book ?

When I was getting started with this type of application I found this plugin to be very helpful, it showed me examples of forms, SQL queries, and so on:
https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-csv-to-database/ Author: Ruhul Amin

On a dedicated server where I had total control it would be possible to rename and adjust the configuration of a website root directory such as your public_html, but on a cPanel managed shared posting site it would be out of the question, among other issues you would be changing the domain name that anchors the hosted account.
So rather than instruct you on how to do this change which I suspect is nearly impossible, may I ask WHY ?
Can you explain in more detail just what problem you want to fix, how you want the new organization to operate and be managed ?
Everything I know of cPanel managed hosted servers tells me that changing the public_html directory is going to bring a world of pain.