Showing posts with label localhost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label localhost. Show all posts

Friday, October 22, 2010

DNS issues when login to Wordpress admin interface

I had a problem when try to login as WordPress adminstrator while remote-desktoping to my Wordpress server: The page is blank! If I go back to the blog and it shows I am logged on already(as it has the 'sys admin' link displayed).  If I click on "sys admin" link I can see the admin page, however, it shows that I do not have javascript enabled.

The problem was resolved by using ip address (LAN IP, or 127.0.0.1) instead of "localhost". This is something not related to Wordpress but it has been bothering me for hours. The network guys knows this is something related to the DNS that did not resolve the name correctly.  I thought I just record this here.

Allow LAN user to view locally installed Wordpress

Instead of the localhost alias, changed the WordPress address (URL) and Blog address (URL) to the LAN ip address, which needs to be a static IP address.

login to wp admin >Settings>general>change URLs> save changes.