Changed blog name and can't login or access site, no FTP access. HELP!
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Please help. It has been 36 hours I have been trying to find a solution to this problem.
It’s the typical problem everyone has been having for years apparently (as there are lots of questions of this nature in the forums but no answers that work for my situation) — why doesn’t word press have a popup box that says: “WARNING! Are you sure you want to do this? Changing your site url may result in breaking your entire website and will make you unable to login to your dashboard. Also, we offer NO phone support if this happens.” I think something like that would have made me reconsider changing it to “test” what happens.
Anyway, from the beginning…
For the past few months, we had been blogging happily at balabustamom.com
We were happy, but we got thirsty for more… a better layout with images and rss feeding in each category so posts would have more longevity. Not super fancy, but better than the typical blog format.
I created a page in the dashboard balabustamom.com/home where I wanted to point the homepage for a better website experience.
I finally got the page set and wanted to find a way to point the blog there instead for its big debut. That’s when the world fell apart. Apparently where I did it in settings was not the correct place – Home, Site URL (seems logical, right? again, wordpress should have a big flashy warning that is idiot-proof)
After it gave me the error, I hit “BACK” in my browser and tried to change it back to balabustamom.com in both fields… but no, it was smarter than that.
Now the site doesn’t load, and I can’t login to the dashboard because it’s trying to redirect me. I go to login at
balabustamom.com/wp-admin/And it redirects to:
http://www.balabustamom.com/home/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.balabustamom.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1Internal server error
PLEASE NOTE: I have seen this:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
and this
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#If_You_Have_Accidentally_Changed_your_WordPress_Site_URL
and this
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/404-page-not-found-after-changing-url
and about a million other conversations on this topic, but everything is telling me to access via FTP, and I don’t have access!We are 3 moms … I HAVE and know dreamweaver, but the other 2 moms don’t know what information to give me as far as server / host / ftp info. So I have no FTP access. I have tried every combination I could think of, different servers, hosts, known users and passwords. Nothing works. I downloaded Filezilla and tried that, but same brick wall.
All I want is our simple, happy little balabustamom.com back. I wish there was a big, fat UNDO button. I’m so frustrated at this point. Please, can somebody help me? I have been spending so much time on this to no avail.
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