Lost access to my site

  • Resolved GusGF

    (@gusgf)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    I’m hosting my site on DigitalOcean. I went into my admin panel in WP and updated the settings for the following:
    WordPress Address (URL):
    Site Address (URL):
    I replaced the IP addresses with my website name:
    http://www.mywebsitename.com/

    Now when I try to access “www.mywebsitename.com” all I get is a text version of the site and cannot get into admin with either the ip or url address as before.

    What have I done and how can I can access to my admin panel to change things back? Help appreciated.

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    9 years, 7 months ago

    You can change the URLs back following this guide: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Changing_the_URL_directly_in_the_database

    Before you change them again, make sure that your domain is properly pointed to and setup on your server.

    Thread Starter GusGF

    (@gusgf)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    I find that I can get to my website using the ip or the domain name. But if I prepend WWW to the domain name I get webpage not found.

    I tried changing “WordPress address (URL)” and “Site address (URL)” from the IP to the domain value only to loss access to my site. Then I just tried changing “WordPress address (URL)” and again lost access to the site. Used PHPmyadmin to reset the WP admin settings.

    Baffled and fed up with this. So bl@@dy complicated and so many obstacles to overcome just to learn a bit of WordPress!

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Hm, that problem with WWW not working is server level, not WordPress. Have you contacted your hosting provider?

    Thread Starter GusGF

    (@gusgf)

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Managed to sort it out. Needed to set my virtual server hostname = my domain name and set the cname record for ‘www’ access.

    Thanks

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    9 years, 7 months ago

    Excellent, thanks for sharing the solution!

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