So, I have a client that has had this issue with WordPress. I have looked at it in the past, and was unable to make head nor tails of it. Now it has dropped back in my lap...
They are a small publishing company with many imacs, most running the latest version of OSX. This problem seems to have started when those macs were upgraded to the latest OSX, but that could be a coincidence. Their website(s) are hosted on GoDaddy using WordPress. They initially reported that no one on the internal network could access their websites. The websites are accessible from outside the business just fine. looked at DNS resolution, successfully pinged the host server and resolved IP, ran a tracrt to the server and it was not blocked, all seemed fine so I referred to the website guy and moved on.
Well, the website guy had no idea. Through experimenting, they have now found out that the issue only happens when someone in the network is logged into the admin panel for WordPress. If they log out, everyone can access the websites. If they log back in, no one can access it. Very Weird.
Ideas? All I can think of is the admin console is seeing non-admin requests coming from the same IP that the admin console is logged in to and blocking it?? I have no experience with WordPress at all, so I'm at a disadvantage, but as many of you guys know we are the ones who need to figure things out when others can't. Any help would be very appreciated.
They are a small publishing company with many imacs, most running the latest version of OSX. This problem seems to have started when those macs were upgraded to the latest OSX, but that could be a coincidence. Their website(s) are hosted on GoDaddy using WordPress. They initially reported that no one on the internal network could access their websites. The websites are accessible from outside the business just fine. looked at DNS resolution, successfully pinged the host server and resolved IP, ran a tracrt to the server and it was not blocked, all seemed fine so I referred to the website guy and moved on.
Well, the website guy had no idea. Through experimenting, they have now found out that the issue only happens when someone in the network is logged into the admin panel for WordPress. If they log out, everyone can access the websites. If they log back in, no one can access it. Very Weird.
Ideas? All I can think of is the admin console is seeing non-admin requests coming from the same IP that the admin console is logged in to and blocking it?? I have no experience with WordPress at all, so I'm at a disadvantage, but as many of you guys know we are the ones who need to figure things out when others can't. Any help would be very appreciated.