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1. kallegrill
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   I installed wordpress and then changed my database/mysql password with my host. I also changed, in wp-config.php, the line

   define('DB_PASSWORD', 'Password')

   so that it coheres with the new password (cut and paste, double check, no misstake there).

   Now I'm not finding my site, Firefox shows a blank, IE says it cannot find the site.

   Do I need to reinstall/reconfig or something else?

   This may be unrelated, but the reason I changed the password was that I had first changed it from the original to a new one, then installed wordpress, but his cased my smf forum to go blank, so I then changed the password back to the original and now the forum is fine but the wordpress page is not (these are installed on sister directories with the same hose/domain).

   (I have seen a few topics on this but not with this problem)

   Thanks!!

2. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Changing the password shoudn't cause that, and if the password in wp-config.php was wrong I would think you would get a "database connection error".

   Might have to provide a link to see the problem. Plugins and themes have been know to cause that problem.

3. kallegrill
   Member
   Posted 2 months ago #

   Thank you Micheal,

   The page in question is at

   http://www.circleway.se

   with an automatic redirect to

   http://www.circleway.se/wp/

   I use a theme called rcg forest with the standard plug-ins, nothing added. The whole site is very new.

   The redirect is not really neccessary, could it help to move the whole thing to the root directory? Or to reinstall it there?

   Thanks.

4. MichaelH
   moderator
   Posted 2 months ago #

   I'd get rid of the redirect for now. To make WordPress available at http://mydomain.com just change in Settings->General, the Blog address (URL) to http://mydomain.com and put this index.php file in your web-root folder (it is the same folder that contains the wp folder)

   <?php
   /* Short and sweet */
   define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
   require('./wp/wp-blog-header.php');
   ?>

   With that said, I'd first see if deleting the theme folder you are using solves the problem. Then may have to deactivate all plugins...see How to deactivate all plugins when not able to access the administrative menus?

   If that doesn't resolve it, then guess a reinstall might be the easiest thing to do.

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