Andrew Ryan

Solved!! All working now.
Primary and multiple secondary local sites on localhost accessible via internet.

Steps:

1. In phpMyAdmin, went to the bitnami_wordpress database
2. In table wp_blogs changed all 127.0.0.1 to my router’s ip (110.22.25.35)
3. In table wp_site changed “domain” col from 127.0.0.1 to my router’s ip (110.22.25.35) where id = 1
4. In table wp_site_meta changed “site_url” from 127.0.0.1 to my router’s ip (110.22.25.35)

I think I changed a few more similarly, but didn’t write it down… sry

5. In wp-config.php I replaced 127.0.0.1 with my router’s ip (110.22.25.35) , ie
   define('DOMAIN_CURRENT_SITE', '110.22.25.35');
6. That let me log in as super-admin, I then went to “Network Admin” > “Sites” and edited each site, changing all instances of 127.0.0.1 to 110.22.25.35

I can now access back and front ends from my local machine and also from the internet.

A long, long last few days!! 🙂

I’m managed by trial and error to get it to work, but not sure why.

I edited the file C:\xampp\apps\wordpress\conf\httpd-app.conf

<Directory "C:/xampp/apps/wordpress/htdocs">
    Options +MultiViews +FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None

    <IfVersion < 2.3 >
    Order allow,deny
    Allow from all
    </IfVersion>
    <IfVersion >= 2.3>
    Require all granted
    </IfVersion>

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /wordpress/
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [S=1]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /wordpress/index.php [L]

</Directory>

I simply changed AllowOverride None to AllowOverride All and it now appears to work.

Edit:
And also strangely, XAMPP is running so much faster now. It used to take ~5 seconds while “waiting for localhost”, now it’s almost instant. Strange…