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Site Traffic DirectionSubmitted by abergen on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 1:14pm.How does wordpress direct site traffic? Is it via IP (with a unique IP per site) or by name? |
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Site Traffic DirectionSubmitted by abergen on Tue, 05/20/2008 - 1:14pm.How does wordpress direct site traffic? Is it via IP (with a unique IP per site) or by name? |
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Site Traffic Direction
It writes whatever is in the "Wordpress URL" and "Blog URL" field on the settings page into the URLs it creates. So if you put an IP there, it will use an IP, if you put a FQDN it will use that. If you put xyzzy it will write that ... and your site will stop working.
Austin
This is broken in version 1.1.2
Until version 1.1.2 I had these settings working fine. Version 1.1.2 has a problem.
If I set the IPs as usual (i.e. to specify the external address for the blog) it woeks fine for several hours. Then the site dies and you notice (when accessing it from the outside world) that the browser is trying to access e.g http://192.168.1.82/wordpress, which of course fails.
Run back to the server and check the Wordpress settings, and those two addresses have indeed reset themselves from the external address back to the local IP of the jumpbox.
Set them back to the external address and save, and all works again for a few hours, when the blog resets to the local IP address and goes offline again.
Have reverted to 1.1 where this doesn't happen.
Help re 1.1.2, please.
This is broken in version 1.1.2
I assume you mean that you are talking about setting the site URL in WordPress itself. This will ONLY work if the JumpBox has been given a static IP address. If it has a dynamic IP address, there is a hook that will change that setting every time your IP address is updated.
So if I had to guess, I would say that you set a static address for the old one, and dynamic address for the new one ... and the new one is misbehaving. Is that the case?
I would suggest you try setting a static IP address on your 1.1.2 Wordpress JumpBox and then go modify the URL setting, or better yet, use the Public Address feature that we have added in the 1.1+ platform: http://www.jumpbox.com/docs/v11/changeHostname
Let me know if this doesn't work out for you or if you need additional clarification.
Austin