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Carlos
Carlos

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Can't access Wordpress site after IP change

I'm running a multi-site wordpress install on a virtual machine in the cloud. The WP didn't have a domain, I was accessing it purely through IP address. Today, I turned the VM off/on and lo and behold, I got a new IP address. Now, I can't access it.

Whenever, I go to the new IP address, Chrome will spin for a few seconds and then load up the old IP address as the URL and display a message saying the site took too long to respond.

I've already done the following:

  1. Updated IP address in wp-config.php file.
  2. Updated IP address in siteurl and home in wp_3_options, wp_2_options, etc.
  3. Updated IP Address in wp_blogs, wp_site, wp_sitemeta, wp_options.
  4. Renamed plugins folder so they wouldn't reload. I have Wordfence installed and there's a column called wp_home_url that contains the old IP, but it's a BLOB.

Not sure what else to check. Does anyone have any ideas as to how to fix this?

Running WP 4.7 on Ubuntu 16.10.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6726

Answers (1)

Carlos
Carlos

Reputation: 89

Juan was right, I just needed to clear the browser cache. I followed this article to update the URL on a multisite WP installation; https://wpengine.com/support/how-to-change-a-multi-site-primary-domain. The article didn't mention that the browser cache had to be cleared and that's where I got stuck.

Upvotes: 2

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