Cornerstone not working with virtual host extension

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#1

I’m building a development site that I’m accessing through the IP address using Chrome’s Virtual Hosts extension (instead of a URL) but Cornerstone isn’t working. What can be done? Thanks.

#2

Hello There,

Thanks for writing in! Most of our local testing sites are using virtual host. Take mine for example. To make sure that your Cornerstone will work, please make sure that the local host WordPress dashboard url is the same as the site url in the settings. Please see image below:

And we also recommend that you increase your memory allocated to PHP. To increase it, please edit your wp-config.php file and insert these lines:

define( 'WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '256M' );
define( 'WP_MAX_MEMORY_LIMIT', '512M' );

You can add it before the line
/*That's all, stop editing! Happy Blogging. */

Please let us know how it goes.

#3

That totally works now - thanks!!

By the way, why do you suggest we increase our memory allocated to PHP. Will this make Cornerstone run faster? We’re curious, as we use X-Theme to build many of our websites (this will be our 10th website built on X-Theme!)

#4

Hello Again,

Glad it works out for you!

Regarding memory limit, by default, WordPress will attempt to increase memory allocated to PHP to 40MB (code is at the beginning of /wp-includes/default-constants.php) for single site and 64MB for multisite, so the setting in wp-config.php should reflect something higher than 40MB or 64MB depending on your setup. As soon as install more and more plugins, it will eat up more resources which might slow down or even result to PHP memory limit exhaustion. This is why we suggest to increase the limit.

Hope this helps.

#5

Another question, Cornerstone works now except for whatever page is marked to be displayed as the static front page. All I get is the loading graphic.

#6

Hello Again,

Thanks for updating the thread. Please keep in mind that when you a page is set as your Posts page or as the blog index, you won’t be able to edit it with Cornerstone or even the default Wordpress editor. You can checkout the “how to create a blog page” section on this page: https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Static_Front_Page#Creating_a_Static_Front_Page

Hope this explains it briefly.

#7

Thanks for your reply. Perhaps I wasn’t clear in my question. When I set my home page as the static Front Page, I can’t edit it in Cornerstone. I have been able to do this previously with other sites. It’s not a posts or blog index page. And then if I set another arbitrary page (eg, About Us) as the Front Page, I cannot edit that through Cornerstone.

#8

Actually, I think it’s not a Cornerstone issue. I can’t access the home IP address on the front end.

#9

Hi there,

What do you mean? Does it only happen on the front page? Or is it okay and fixed now? If not, you may provide your site’s URL and login credentials in a secure note then I’ll check it too :slight_smile:

Thanks!

#10

It’s fixed now. Thanks!

#11

Hey There,

Thanks for letting us know that this has been fixed already.
If you need anything else we can help you with, don’t hesitate to open another thread.

Regards.