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Asked: 2011-11-14 20:27:00 +0800 CST

EC2 Instance of Wordpress not mapping URLs correctly

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I'm using an AWS EC2 micro instance to run a wordpress blog.

I've successfully mapped a subdomain to the Elastic IP for the micro instance. After a few minor changes, the URL I mapped to the Elastic IP (blog.example.com) opens up the wordpress home page but whenever I click on any of the wordpress links the domain changes to the AWS public DNS for that instance (http://ec2-123-45-678-910.compute-1.amazonaws.com/wordpress/).

How do I fix the URLs so that they all follow the subdomain I have setup?

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2 Answers

  1. I think that there's a setting in wordpress that forces the base address of links. Or you can rewrite the servername in webserver.

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  2. Best Answer

    I used to following command to apply the host name change to the machine. 

    sudo /opt/bitnami/updateip --machine_hostname blog.example.com

    After that the URLs were fixed.

    If using a Bitnami AMI, be sure to modify the updateip file in /opt/bitnami/ to something like updateip.orig. This prevents the hostname from being changed on reboot.

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