How to set ipv6 address as siteurl?

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1. I think your problem here is the esc_url() function which is used to sanitize a lot of the URLs used in wp-core.

   If you have a look at the function definition in formatting.php you’ll see that the regex in line 2627 is filtering out [ and ].

   But fortunately you can also see that in line 2656 there is a filter supplied which allows you to overwrite this behavior. So you’ll be able to fix this through attaching a custom function to the clean_url filter.

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   ** EDIT2 **

   It seems like redirect URLs are sanitized in another function. Fortunately this is a pluggable function, so we are able to overwrite it. I edited the code to take this into account. You can use the following code snippet through creating a mu-plugins folder inside your wp-content folder and placing a PHP file (I named mine fix_ipv6_siteurl.php) inside that folder.

   <?php
   
   add_filter('clean_url', 'wpse_120978_custom_esc_url', 10, 3);
   
   function wpse_120978_custom_esc_url( $url, $original_url, $_context ) {
   
       if( !strpos($original_url, '[') ) {
           return $url;
       }
   
       $url = $original_url;
   
       if ( '' == $url )
               return $url;
       $url = preg_replace('|[^a-z0-9-[]~+_.?#=!&;,/:%@$|*'()\x80-\xff]|i', '', $url);
       $strip = array('%0d', '%0a', '%0D', '%0A');
       $url = _deep_replace($strip, $url);
       $url = str_replace(';//', '://', $url);
       /* If the URL doesn't appear to contain a scheme, we
           * presume it needs http:// appended (unless a relative
           * link starting with / or a php file).
           */
       if ( strpos($url, ':') === false &&
               substr( $url, 0, 1 ) != '/' && substr( $url, 0, 1 ) != '#' && !preg_match('/^[a-z0-9-]+?.php/i', $url) )
               $url = 'http://' . $url;
   
       // Replace ampersands and single quotes only when displaying.
       if ( 'display' == $_context ) {
               $url = wp_kses_normalize_entities( $url );
               $url = str_replace( '&amp;', '&#038;', $url );
               $url = str_replace( "'", '&#039;', $url );
       }
   
       if ( !is_array($protocols) )
               $protocols = array ('http', 'https', 'ftp', 'ftps', 'mailto', 'news', 'irc', 'gopher', 'nntp', 'feed', 'telnet', 'mms', 'rtsp', 'svn');
       if ( wp_kses_bad_protocol( $url, $protocols ) != $url )
               return '';
   
       return $url;
   }
   
   
   if ( !function_exists('wp_sanitize_redirect') ) :
   /**
    * Sanitizes a URL for use in a redirect.
    *
    * @since 2.3
    *
    * @return string redirect-sanitized URL
    **/
   function wp_sanitize_redirect($location) {
       $location = preg_replace('|[^a-z0-9-[]~+_.?#=&;,/:%!]|i', '', $location);
       $location = wp_kses_no_null($location);
   
       // remove %0d and %0a from location
       $strip = array('%0d', '%0a', '%0D', '%0A');
       $location = _deep_replace($strip, $location);
       return $location;
   }
   endif;
   

   (The previous code from the functions.php can be removed.)

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