How to rename a wordpress site from http://myserver.example.com/blog to http://myserver.example.com/somethingelse or just http://myserver.example.com

Those instructions are a little odd to my eye. I think you’re being forced to use /blog because of Step 3 in the instructions. The Apache directive Alias /blog /usr/share/wordpress …directs Apache to route any requests to /blog to the directory where you’ve installed WordPress. (See Apache’s docs on the Alias directive.) I don’t know … Read more

Is a local multisite installation equivalent to multiple VirtualHosts?

Simplifying the original question, so this answer is to my original, more specific question about Apache setup. Do Apache variable DOCUMENT_ROOT and PHP variable doc_root need to match exactly? In my local development setup under MAMP for Windows, in file httpd.conf I set DocumentRoot as DocumentRoot “C:/MAMP/htdocs” whereas in httpd-vhosts.conf I set DocumentRoot “C:/MAMP/htdocs/my-dev-install” This … Read more

How to point domain to wordpress page

You need to add that folder path in the .htaccess, your .htaccess should be in the folder as well. # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteRule .* – [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}] RewriteBase /my-page/ RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /my-page/index.php [L] # END WordPress

WordPress: redirecting to my old public ip

UPDATE Found and Fixed the problem. The thing was that yes all the sources in wordpress database pointed to old public ip xxx.xxx.1.163. Which had to be changed. The things that had to be changed was: In wp_options Change siteurl Change home url In wp_posts replace all the old public ip with new public ip … Read more

how to config the home page locally

Your home page is available on the link in the upper left corner right besides the WordPress logo. Update In your .htaccess or httpd-vhosts.conf you have to declare the index.php as index file, and FollowSymLinks has to be On: # sample .htaccess code Options -Indexes +FollowSymLinks DirectoryIndex index.php index.html