WordPress host IP changed not able to open wp-admin and site page looks scattered

WordPress host IP changed not able to open wp-admin and site page looks scattered

Today I was working on my Virtual Machine in my laptop and was trying to check some theme options.In Virtual Machine I have set ip address to be taken dynamically from DHCP server.Today my wifi change the ip address of Virtual machine and all of sudden the demo wordpress site in VM (Virtual Machine) was not working .
In below screenshot it is showing how the page is scattered . I was not able to login in wp-admin after this.

OK I will put some detail which make the scenario more clear.

Previous Virtual Machine IP = 10.10.0.6
Current Virtual Machine IP = 10.10.0.8

How to Solve this problem

Okay I will give some roadmap of what we are going to do.

We will change the hostname of Virtual Machine which is in my Virtual Box, eg. ubuntu.example.com

I will update the wp_options table in wordpress database in Virtual Machine from where my wordpress is running

In my laptop I will make entry of hostname of my Virtual Machine in /etc/hosts file.So that whenever the ip will change I only have to update my /etc/hosts file with new IP

Lets start now.

Step 1: I login into Virtual Machine , New IP Address is 10.10.0.8 (from DHCP) ,Wordpress database name is wordpress also.Going to change Hostname of Virtual machine which is Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I edited the line and gave the value like this “127.0.1.1 ubuntu.example.com ubuntu” . See in below code viewer.

sudo vi /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost
127.0.1.1       ubuntu.example.com ubuntu

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts
::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters
 

Now edited the /etc/hostname file and gave hostname “ubuntu”

sudo vi /etc/hostname 
ubuntu

Restart the service called hostname so that hostname of Virtual Machine will take effect.

sudo service hostname restart

Now check if hostname of Virtual machine is set or not.

`hostname` command is only to see host name
`hostname -f` is to see FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name)

linux@ubuntu:~$ hostname
ubuntu
linux@ubuntu:~$ hostname -f
ubuntu.example.com
linux@ubuntu:~$

Step 2: Now updating the mysql

Here,

Database Name: wordpress
Note: Replace the value of ubuntu.example.com/wordpress with your wordpress link.

mysql -u root -p

mysql> use wordpress

mysql> Select * from wp_options where option_id = 1 OR option_id = 39;

mysql> update wp_options set option_value='http://ubuntu.example.com/wordpress' where option_id = 1;

mysql>

exit

Step 3:

Because example.com we generally use for testing. To open the wordpress demo site ubuntu.example.com I edited the file /etc/hosts and added the new line with new assigned DHCP ip correspond to ubuntu.example.com

vi /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1	localhost		
10.10.0.8       ubuntu.example.com

# The following lines are desirable for IPv6 capable hosts

::1     ip6-localhost ip6-loopback
fe00::0 ip6-localnet
ff00::0 ip6-mcastprefix
ff02::1 ip6-allnodes
ff02::2 ip6-allrouters

 

Now whenever the ip address of machine was changing I was only updating my laptop /etc/hosts file.

Now I opened the URL from my laptop http://ubuntu.example.com/wordpress
Done.