Title: Admin from local network
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Admin from local network

 *  Resolved [flashingcurser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flashingcurser/)
 * (@flashingcurser)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-from-local-network/)
 * Yes this has been asked before and No it hasn’t been answered.
 * Anyone found a way to access/admin the blog from a local network? Or a workaround?
   Anything?
 * Thanks
 * dan

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 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-from-local-network/#post-221511)
 * Can you better elaborate your question, or link to a previous discussion on the
   matter?
 *  Thread Starter [flashingcurser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flashingcurser/)
 * (@flashingcurser)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-from-local-network/#post-221512)
 * The webserver on my network resides in a local network. I use portforwarding 
   from my router so that the outside world can access it. WordPress does not like
   to be accessed from the local network— [http://192.168.5.50](http://192.168.5.50)
   as an example. If you try– it will show a couple of links (no theme or any thing)
   that if clicked on will give a 404. It can only be accessed correctly from my
   fqdn– [http://mysite.org](http://mysite.org) on a browser outside my local network.
   The problem is that if you type in [http://mysite.org](http://mysite.org) to 
   a web brouser within my local network– I get my router admin.
 * (A router cannot forward from inside back to inside– once dns tranlates the fqdn
   then your browser only knows the address– that address from inside the network
   is simply the router.)
 * A search for “local network” will give many unanswered posts.
 * [http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=29602](http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=29602)
 * Thanks
 * dan
 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-from-local-network/#post-221514)
 * I don’t think there is a way to administer your WordPress locally using a different
   URL, because WP stores the blog and site URL with in it’s database.
 * This is an intriguing problem which no potential recourse but to hack WP.
 * Regards
 *  Thread Starter [flashingcurser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flashingcurser/)
 * (@flashingcurser)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-from-local-network/#post-221516)
 * Anyone setup bind to resolve [http://mysite.org](http://mysite.org) to 192.168.5.50?
 * How about an internet proxy?
 * Anyone using either to solve this?
 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-from-local-network/#post-221517)
 * You need to create on your workstation a host file entry, mapping the public 
   DNS name of your server to the local IP address.
 * If you’re using GNU/Linux (OSX, too?), edit `/etc/hosts` and add a line like 
   this:
    `192.168.5.50 mysite.org`
 * If you’re using Windows XP, edit `C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\Etc\Hosts` like
   this:
    `192.168.5.50 mysite.org`
 * Windows 2000 uses `C:\Winnt\System32\Drivers\Etc\Hosts`.
    `192.168.5.50 mysite.
   org`
 * The existence of that line in your hosts file tells your workstation to use the
   specific IP address when trying to connect to the named host. This avoids the
   DNS lookup, and will allow you to do everything you need to do.
 *  Thread Starter [flashingcurser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flashingcurser/)
 * (@flashingcurser)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-from-local-network/#post-221519)
 * The win2k box seems to be ignoring the host file… I’ll explore that some more.(
   Come to think of it, it may be antispyware doing something to the host file.)
 * Thanks
 * dan
 *  [skippy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/skippy/)
 * (@skippy)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-from-local-network/#post-221520)
 * Sometimes you need to reboot Windows boxes to make them honor host file entries.
 *  Thread Starter [flashingcurser](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flashingcurser/)
 * (@flashingcurser)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-from-local-network/#post-221523)
 * I dual boot with slackware– maybe I just need to forget windows. I have been 
   gaming alot lately though….
 * Thanks
 * dan

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