As mentioned in the question itself, this is a problem a non-solvable due to the internals of WP core. What I did was getting rid of the interfering/colliding process – I simply turned it off (as changing the port wasn’t possible).
The constants you need to define are WP_HOME, not WP_HOMEURL, and WP_SITEURL, and you need to complete address. Your addresses are missing the scheme— http:// define( ‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘http://local.192.168.3.101.xip.io’); define( ‘WP_HOME’, ‘http://local.192.168.3.101.xip.io’ ); Without the scheme, WordPress treats those URIs like relative addresses. You can see that in the address bar if you watch what is … Read more
Based on the code that you posted I can see you have created a Multisite installation. I’m assuming that is a mistake. I would suggest you delete you new installation, upload your old site backup and import your old database backup. Updating the Database Ok, now that things are back in place you need to … Read more
This is not quite trivial, because natively WP is engineered to completely ignore requests to existing files. So WP doesn’t pay attention to files and .htaccess doesn’t have access to WP’s logged in information. If you look for prior art (in plugins for selling digital files for example) this isn’t easily (at all?) doable with … Read more
It looks like the problem was the db table prefix. My local config file had the wrong table prefix and once that was changed, everything was where it should be.
try deleting wp-config.php or rename it, then go to your site, then follow the setup instructions. by deleting wp-config.php it will make your site run setup wizard when you visit your home page. It will ask you your database configuration. And if you fill out each input fields with correct data, then your site is … Read more
Two domain for one site not working in mobile
Cookie Domain is preventing Admin login
I realized that all you have to do is find where the database is returned (in my case it is wp-init.php) and change the prefix to reflect the shared database: $wpdb->prefix=”wp_”;
Usually with proper server config the wp-config.php file should not be able to be edited from a theme or plugin. It’s usually fired first before your plugin/theme files. Here is a similar discussion on the topic.