Dumb newbie question re IP address

I’m trying to fix an install of Wordpress on a Mac (OS X 10.5.8).

During the install, the IP address of the local machine (192.168.168.6) was used by the installer, rather than something like ‘localhost’. Unfortunately, the LAN assigns IP addresses on login and of course this machine is no longer at the previous IP address on the LAN. As a result, the log in URL is wrong.

How do I fix this so that the Bitnami Wordpress install will work on this machine without needing to specify a particular IP address?

TIA

DN

Hi,

You can set the host to “localhost” during the installation but you can only access to your wordpress from your computer, not from any other computer. Another solution is to set a hostname like “mycomputer” and then add a new entry in the /etc/hosts file:

192.168.1.XX mycomputer

So you only have to modify this file if the IP changed.