wp-config.php changes are persistent and should not be overwritten by updates. Of course, there are ways to write to this file programmatically – which you could no doubt do from a plugin, but that’s really not the intended use – it’s designed more or less to hold settings which change very infrequently. Perhaps you also … Read more
WP-Admin throws 404 after changing wp-config Salts
reWrite wp-content url to point on my cdn
both answers were great and helped me a lot ,i used the following to get to wp-config file without really Knowing all database details require_once(‘../wp-config.php’); include_once (‘../wp-load.php’); $con = mysqli_connect(DB_HOST, DB_USER, DB_PASSWORD , DB_NAME);
WordPress login redirection not working on Nginx root directory
SO FINALLY to my question: Is this indeed a brilliant solution, or is there a real possibility it will it cause me major problems like broken links and database corruption in the future? You will find that new content created refers to the new URL, even after you remove the config statements, and old content … Read more
ABSPATH not defined?
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WordPress keeps redirecting to localhost
So turns out, in /etc, there is the host.conf file and the hosts file. Yes, it was that stupid. Case closed.