Point my domain to my local/public wordpress site

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    jackandcarter · Member ·

    I am having issues pointing my domain jackandcarters.com from Bluehost to my public IP.

    I had bluehost help me setup the domain to point to my public IP, which is static. I have port forwarding enabled to the public IP of the machine hosting WP through Apache.

    I am on macOS, installed apache through brew since apple’s is broken, same for PHP. I am able to use WP as local just fine.

    Once I change the httpd.conf for apache, as well as wpconfig php.ini file to point to my public IP, everything breaks.

    I have also tried adding a user to MySQL for the wordpress DB, using my public IP as host, the connection is broken and I have to revert to default local settings just to go back into WP.

    I feel like I’m missing a step, and the guides I see here include third party apps like mamp, or other proxy apps which I do not use. Could someone help me understand where exactly what files my public IP needs to be changed to?

    So far I changed all local host and internal ip in https, wp-config.php to my public IP with ports and nothing works. If I leave everything local and add a new database user say ‘test’ and use local host, then change the wp-config.php to reflect it will break it. even as local host I cannot change database users for wordpress.

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    jackandcarter · Member ·

    the IP it says I need help with is obviously not correct but the post put it there automatically

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    aisajib · Member ·

    Hi there!

    Since you’re using WordPress.org on your localhost, you may want to post the question on the WordPress.org support forum.

    We are WordPress.com, a managed hosting service provider, and we can only help with WordPress.com sites in this forum.

    Thanks!

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