Override the url in wordpress wp-options database.

I typically do all my coding in a development sandbox, but with wordpress I was having trouble with the url settings. My local development environment had a url of http://dev/gh, but the public url is greghostetler.com. So once I changed the url in the wordpress wp-options table I could no longer access my local environment, because it would redirect to the public url.

The url in the options table can be overridden in the wp-config file on my dev environment.

define('WP_SITEURL', 'http://dev/gh');

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3 Responses to “Override the url in wordpress wp-options database.”

Will Mar 23rd, 2009 @ 6:29 pm
That’s a nice little tip. Wordpress is pretty intricate. ttyl bud.

Hey, by the way, you need to get the “Subscribe to Post” plugin. I think that’s what it’s called. So I can get emails when others comment on a post that I’m subscribed to. That basically makes every post into a discussion, not a drive by “Hey thanks for the info” or whatever.
Greg Mar 23rd, 2009 @ 6:44 pm
I added the plugin. That’s a pretty cool plugin.
Spice Apr 17th, 2009 @ 2:10 am
You’re a genius