Comments on: Don’t let the WordPress address (URL) take the piss out of you!

By: TriDino

TriDino — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 02:42:14 +0000

Thanks, man. I just jerked off my wp site by manipulating the url field.
With your fix, everything works fine again! Thanks a lot!
Chris

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Orly and her website « Native and Natural Born Citizenship Explored — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:24:54 +0000

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By: Mitchell

Mitchell — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 01:34:47 +0000

You Legend. 2 seconds of google searching has solved a problem which has messed me around many times!

By: Lee Kelleher

Lee Kelleher — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:00:44 +0000

You know, I never thought about doing that for the DB host. Using the “hosts” file for that is a good idea. I’ll be doing that in future!

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 18:05:45 +0000

Cheers Lee, that was more or less what I was planning to do. Thanks for posting the code… I shall copy and paste that ;)

The other approach I’ve taken before is to setup a local resolver so I can set the DB host to something like MYSQL and then just edit /etc/hosts (or windows/system32/drivers/etc/host on winblows). Also makes migrating the DB server a bit easier.

By: Lee Kelleher

Lee Kelleher — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:57:48 +0000

Good tip! I’d remember hearing about that on wp-hackers a while back, (then completely forgot about it).

For the DB config settings, I use a quick-n-dirty if/else …

if ($_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] == ‘localhost’)
{
// local db settings
}
else
{
// remote db settings
}

Obviously you’d change “localhost” to whatever your local dev hostname would be.