Wordpress at Pi IP, webroot

Jappe · January 20, 2023, 10:51pm

I did a test on my testsystem, all I did was adding a new config to lighttpd:

server.modules += ("mod_redirect")
$SERVER["socket"] == ":80" {

url.redirect = ("^/$" => "/wordpress" ) }

I did not change the site url or anything, I left it on http://192.168.X.X/wordpress in the wp settings.
Works as expected
I tested also with another fresh browser.
It works not when I try to reach it via my domain, only with the local IP.
If you wanna make that work, you would need to change site-url / adress in the wp settings to your domain and change the lighttpd config a bit:

server.modules += ("mod_redirect")
$HTTP["host"] == "yourdomain.TLD" {

url.redirect = ("^/$" => "/wordpress" ) }

I will test this also real quick and report back.

Jappe · January 20, 2023, 11:42pm

I can also confirm this.
In wordpress settings I changed website and wordpress adress to:
https://MY.DOMAIN/wordpress and created a lighttpd config:

server.modules += ("mod_redirect")
$HTTP["host"] == "MY.DOMAIN" {url.redirect = ("^/$" => "/wordpress" ) }

Don’t forget to restart lighttpd

holocron · January 21, 2023, 12:19pm

Thanks. I appreciate the assist on this as I learn lighttpd more.

I did a clean install of WP. I ran the setup per the dietpi first run config steps.

I created a file 99-wordpress.conf in the conf-enabled folder.

I then changed the Wordpress URL and Site URL in WP settings to https://domain.name.

I then rebooted the pi.

Browsing to https://domain.name resolves to https://domain.name/wordpress/ but then everything else breaks after that. Internal links are broken, can not get to wp-login.

Joulinar · January 21, 2023, 12:49pm

you are trying to reach http://your.ip.com/wp-admin now?

holocron · January 21, 2023, 1:02pm

yes, everything outside of the home page is inaccessible and results in a 404 error

Jappe · January 21, 2023, 1:14pm

Don’t change it, leave it as https://domain.name/wordpress, your wordpress installation is still in this folder.

Joulinar · January 21, 2023, 1:16pm

for me following is working.

setup WP us usual.
complete first run setup.
login to WP admin page and go into setting.
adjust WP URL and remove wordpress sub path.
create new 99-wordpress.conf in the conf-available folder.

$HTTP["host"] == "192.168.0.20" {
    server.document-root = "/var/www/wordpress/" 
}

enable configuration

lighty-enable-mod wordpress

restart web server

systemctl restart lighttpd.service

success