Can WordPress automatically reinstall itself?

  • Resolved Tekky07

    (@tekky07)


    11 years ago

    I’m sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I did a search and couldn’t find anything.

    So I have one website that I messed up the WordPress Address and Site URL and it took away the theme and everything and could not access the WordPress admin page. I do not have access to the server the site is located on, but I found how to fix it, that’s not my issue.

    I went to check the site the other day to pull information from it, to move to the new site (the old site was going to be taken down eventually so I didn’t care that I couldn’t access the admin panel), and WordPress had been resintalled with a fresh copy.

    My question is, is there anyway WordPress will resintall itself automatically if there is an error with the WordPress Address and Site URL, or would this have to physically be done by a human being?

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  • @mercime

    (@mercime)

    11 years ago

    WordPress doesn’t reinstall itself, needs human actions, no ghost stories as far I know. Could be that what you thought was a dead site only need clearing browser or server caches. Where are you hosted?

    Thread Starter Tekky07

    (@tekky07)

    11 years ago

    It’s hosted at DreamHost. I don’t believe it would be the server cache that needed clearing. It was my error of changing the WordPress Address and Site URL to the wrong address. I don’t have access to server itself so I could not use this fix: http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

    I was just going to let the site go in the process of moving all the information, until I looked one day and WordPress had been freshly installed.

    But you answered my question, thank you mercime 🙂

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