I have a WordPress installation on my localhost: http://localhost:8888
I’ve uploaded the wp files on my FTP, and I’ve imported the DB. I can’t use a new installation because I’ve edited some core files.
I also edited the table wp_options on my site, and edited the fields, siteurl and home so those two fields contained the site URL, changing them from “localhost:8888” to my new URL.
The problem now is when I go to my URL and try to load the website it will redirect me to http://THE_NEW_WEBSITE:8888.
I need that port removed. How can I do that?
you don’t need that port removed, you just haven’t changed the base url of the wordpress install everywhere you needed to. check your .htaccess file in the directory where you installed wordpress. see if there is anything in there with the old url left over, ie. the url with port 8888. if it’s wrong, replace it with the new one.
otherwise, try grep-ing through the directory for :8888 and see if that string exists anywhere its not supposed to.
use wingrep if you’re on windows: http://www.wingrep.com/
Here’s a tutorial on grep if you’re not familiar: http://www.unixref.com/guides/grepGuide.html
I had same issue. All I had to do was to use another browser. The problem was cache.
Solved before explorting the database change the url from the wordpress admin page and after that export the DB
I was having the same problem. I was running MAMP with ports 8888 and 8889 and installed WordPress. When it asked for my port put in 8888.
What happened was it hardcoded the URL location to be localhost:8888/wordpress, so when I wanted to change the port to 80, it would redirect me there from localhost/wordpress
What I did was run MAMP with the original ports, 8888 and 8889, which allowed me to access the dashboard, from there I went to the “Settings” tab and change the “WordPress Address” and the “Site Address”.
When I clicked “Save Changes” it brought up an error page, presumably because now it was being forwarded from localhost:8888/wordpress to localhost/wordpress, but when I switched the port back to 80 on MAMP and went to localhost/wordpress I was able to access everything again.
I had the same issue when i was trying to run a WordPress site using XAMPP which was originally created and run by a mac user using MAMP.
I fixed the issue by removing the :8888 part from siteurl and home properties in the wp_options table in the database and clearing the browsing data (Cookies and other site data / Cached images and files) of the browser.