I’m still trying to figure out wordpress and I’m slowly making progress. I can access everything fine remotely. Right now I’m on the Mac laptop at home and logged into the UVM Campus VPN. I believe this effectively makes me a remote host.
However, when I am logged in locally, I have an access problem because wordpress expects to be accessed from a certain URL, in this case, tortui.net:8085. Since 8085 is portforwarded by my router to tortui.net:80, I can not access locally using that address. I even tried defining that address in my local hosts file but that still doesn’t work.
Tortui 
OK. I solved this problem. I changed httpd.conf to listen on 8085. Then instead of forwarding port 8085 to port 80 on my servers local IP, I forward port 8085 to my servers IP but still to port 8085, not to port 80.
Also, in my hosts file, I have a line:
10.100.4.2 tortui.net
That way, when I browse to http://tortui.net:8085 on the server, I’ll really be browsing to the local server IP.