adamwc

I continue to feel extremely grateful for this help.
Manzabar, I actually turned off the “webserving” admin tool in the router because there was a point at which I realized that (1) it doesn’t offer all of the options telnetting in offers and (2) I was concerned that it might interfere with my serving. I also did precisesly what I needed to do to the router to make it work for everyone else, but have continued to be frustrated with my inability to access it at the same time.
I’m pooped. I did a reinstall. No help. So, for now, I will have to take a step away from this for a bit, try to get some perspective on what could possibly be preventing it from working.
-Adam

Manzabar, thank you! I am pretty paranoid (not in general, just around terminal interfaces) and with all of the things I’ve been doing I have saved screenshots and saved stuff.
“The dream” for me was to be able to serve a blog from the comfort of my home, and I will continue to pursue this to the best of my ability, though I have to admit, this has been a frustrating two day period.
I am using a Netgear RP114 router/4-port ethernet hub. There was scant documentation included with this when I bought it about two years ago, and I’ve found nothing specific to it that has helped me get as far as I’ve gotten.
Thanks again. Here’s hoping somebody out there has a clue as to why my wordpress is misbehavin’!

Manzabar, thank you. Hmm. My Mac’s software firewall is not on, so it’s not that. The router setup may be the issue, but I’m seriously at a loss as to how to tackle it. It’s a minor miracle that I actually got it to work at all. 🙂
Macmanx, thanks for asking around.
Boy, I know I’m close. The fact that Beel has this same setup working makes me feel like I’m really close. Beel, what exactly are your settings under “Options” for the wordpress and blog addresses?

Beel, first off, thank you so much for staying with me on this. Our setups sound like they’re virtually identical, so I’m feeling hopeful.
So that I’m being clear, when you link to my blog, the standard config with the default css, you’re doing so from a page that I am only able to see by linking to my webserver from another computer on my network using its LAN IP. Whenever I plug my WAN IP into my browser (http://24.90.64.137), I get nothing.
Now, I am able to change my wordpress config so that I see what you see when you get to my blog, but only by changing the WordPress URI and Blog URI to http://127.0.0.1/blog. And, of course, at that point, there is no way for anyone to see my blog, so what’s the point?
Is there something in your configuration that makes it possible for you to use your browser to see your blog at the same time that I can? There must be. I agree that the platform shouldn’t really matter.

Beel, my propblem is that maybe I want something that isn’t technically feasible?
Here’s my question: Is it impossible to configure wordpress on a Mac with a static LAN IP behind a router so that my blog will simultaneously work for a user on a browser on that blog-serving Mac as well as for people on the WWW?
In other words, if I can’t access my blog at all, then its being fully functional on the WWW is sort of meaningless.
http://24.90.64.137
Are you aware… is ANYONE aware of a workaround here? Or is this whole idea of a computer functioning as a server and a client at the same time just goofy?

Hello Beel, Hello Kitten, thanks for the feedback.
Problem is that once I do that, I can’t actually see my own pages. Has something to do with the fact that my webserver is on a LAN with computers that have static IPs behind a router with its WAN IP. My browsers can’t resolve a link based on the WAN IP.
For the sake of experiment, though, I have set this up this way. Would love to hear if it’s actually working. For clarity’s sake, in the General Options area, I have changed both the WordPress URI and Blog URI to ” http://24.90.64.137/blog “
Is there a way to setup a path to an external CSS file that doesn’t require me to enter an http address? That would make it possible for you and me to see my pages properly formatted… or is there something about that that wouldn’t work?