Wordpress: redirecting to my old public ip

I started to develop my own wordpress site, that I hosted locally. I am using Apache for hosting and mariaDB for DB. I accessed the site through my public ip, that in my case was was xxx.xxx.1.163. I could also access my site thorugh 127.0.0.1. I set the wordpress site up and everything worked fine.

PROBLEM

Until I moved from one place to another with my computer. Now I can not access my site anymore. I have been struggling with the problem for 2 days now. Now my public ip is xxx.xxx.1.110. Problems that occur, when I try to access site:

Accsessing through browser

  • When i try to access through 127.0.0.1, then it automatically redirects me to xxx.xxx.1.163, although I have erased all the Firefox cache, history and cookies.

  • When i try to access through xxx.xxx.1.110, then it also redirects me to xxx.xxx.1.163

I have tried the same in Chrome also. Results are the same.

What I have tried and outlined:

Apache working fine - When I have only apache's index.html file in /var/www/html directory, then I am able to access the default Apache page through 127.0.0.1 and through my current public ip xxx.xxx.1.110. Like this everything seems fine.

Original wordpress - When I move original wordpress files to /var/www/html directory, then then from 127.0.0.1 and xxx.xxx.1.110 the wordpress first setup page appears. Like this everything seems also to be fine.

When I try to set up the wordpress, with the same database connection that i had the last one, then it thorws error and says Wordpress already installed. And now, when I try to connect to 127.0.0.1 or xxx.xxx.1.110 then it automatically redirects me to my old public ip xxx.xxx.1.163

When I move my own wordpress project(the project that I had before and was working) to the /var/www/html folder, then the same thing happens. I keep getting redirected to xxx.xxx.1.163

MY IDEA OF SOLUTION

My idea is that i would probably have to make some changes in my wordpress database and maybe in my wordpress conf files. But I have no idea where I should change and what I should change. I have looked it up also but I have found very different answers.

If somebody could tell me, if I am moving in correct direction or what exactly should I change, then I would be very thankful.

Topic apache ip linux Wordpress

Category Web

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UPDATE

Found and Fixed the problem. The thing was that yes all the sources in wordpress database pointed to old public ip xxx.xxx.1.163. Which had to be changed.

The things that had to be changed was:

  1. In wp_options

  • Change siteurl

  • Change home url

  1. In wp_posts
  • replace all the old public ip with new public ip

For me as newbie the easiest way to do this was using GUI, for example phpmyAdmin

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