Installing PW without a domain name?

[FuturShoc]

I seem to be having some trouble here.

I'm developing a site that must live at a staging web host during development, then move to its permanent home at launch time.

During development, the site address is:

http://74.52.58.162/~imageeff/

I've successfully installed PW, however, i'm not able to get to the PW control panel using:

http://74.52.58.162/~imageeff/index.php/wire

or this:

http://74.52.58.162/~imageeff/wire

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...later.

Ok, although I had a suspicion that htaccess was the source of my problem, I hadn't dug deeply into it enough.

1. I had failed to notice the helpful comments in the PW htaccess file which noted a need to add a RewriteBase rule for sites including the tilde character.

2. I had foolishly not trusted the documentation which clearly noted that "http://74.52.58.162/~imageeff/processwire" would be my control panel url. NOT "/wire" as I had oddly assumed by looking at the directory structure.

D'oh. Apologies for the false alarm.

[teppo]

Hello there!

First of all, admin panel is by default located at /processwire/, not /wire/ or index.php/wire/. Then again, http://74.52.58.162/~imageeff/?it=/processwire/ opens admin panel as expected, while http://74.52.58.162/~imageeff/processwire/ doesn't, which would suggest that there's also something wrong with rewrites. Did you get any errors while / before installing PW and is your site running on Apache with mod_rewrite enabled?

In case that you need help solving this, I'd suggest checking this post (and why not whole thread, for that matter) out first: http://processwire.com/talk/topic/82-install-pw-to-subdir/?p=1253.

[apeisa]

See the htaccess file, there is a mention about ~ char.

[JeffS]

You can always add an entry for this IP in your OS hosts file so that you can locally resolve a host / host.domainname.tld to the IP address of your dev site.