I use a public plain apache server with mod_rewrite to serve my wordpress as i don’t trust php enough to expose it to the world 
I wrote and updated a previous post describing what i’ve done to make things work for me, but now with WordPress 2.8 it’s broken, so i had to figure out a fix for this problem again. This is how i’ve done it:
on my public webserver i use this line in the virtual host config:
1 | RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://sotf.labnet.uclv.net/wordpress$1 [L,P] |
The magic is done in my wp-config.php file:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 | /* That's all, stop editing! Happy blogging. */ // hack for using wordpress behind another apache / mod_rewrite // config hack: // set subdir of this worpress installation absolute to this webserver (normally /wordpress) $local_subdir = '/wordpress'; // set subdir on remote server (normally /) $remote_subdir = '/'; //print_r($_SERVER); if ( isset( $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST'] ) ) { $old_host = $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST']; $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] = $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST']; $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI'] = str_replace($old_host, $_SERVER['HTTP_X_FORWARDED_HOST'], $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI']); } $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = str_replace($local_subdir.'/', $remote_subdir, $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']); $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URL'] = str_replace($local_subdir.'/', $remote_subdir, $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URL']); $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI'] = str_replace($local_subdir.'/', $remote_subdir, $_SERVER['SCRIPT_URI']); $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME'] = str_replace($local_subdir.'/', $remote_subdir, $_SERVER['SCRIPT_NAME']); $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] = str_replace($local_subdir.'/', $remote_subdir, $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']); // end of hack if ( !defined('ABSPATH') ) define('ABSPATH', dirname(__FILE__) . '/'); require_once(ABSPATH . 'wp-settings.php'); |
IMPORTANT: the hacking of the $_SERVER variables has to be done before requiring wp-settings.php!
Update
I had some trouble that rewriting pretty permalinks didn’t work at first. The problem was that I had to enable the use of .htaccess for my wordpress directory in the apache config of my local server:
1 2 3 | <Directory /data01/www/wolfgang.reutz.at />
AllowOverride FileInfo
</Directory> |
And i had to enter the public webaddress into both of the blog url fields in the general settings of the wordpress admin interface. After that i had to manually tweak my .htaccess file in my wordpress installation:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 | # BEGIN WordPress RewriteEngine On RewriteBase /wordpress/ RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L] # END WordPress |