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  • Thread Starter destinymalone

    (@destinymalone)

    mom #2 has also been looking into this. here is what she said:

    i went into the CPanel and changed the siteurl option_name to our normal domain name like the instructions said to do but then i couldn’t access either bablabustamom.com OR balabustamom.com/home

    so I switched it back to point to balabustamom.com/home for now so at least people can read the content on our site…but we can’t log in to the admin panel….not sure yet how to fix that….looking into some stuff right now

    also, the content structure looks messed up the way its set up….but i think this is probably the least of our worries at this point

    if only there was a way to log back into the admin panel and switch it back to the original page

    Contact your hosting company, and they’ll be able to give you the FTP details for your account.

    Even without that, you can still use phpMyAdmin (all good hosting companies have this) through your sites hosting control panel (not the WordPress admin area).

    And yes, you are right… there’s been some (very) big discussions on this setting for years, but it hasn’t seemed to get anywhere just yet. It’s a very constant stream of problems just like you’re having now.

    Thread Starter destinymalone

    (@destinymalone)

    Thanks, I am calling it quits for tonight. I may try to take a look tomorrow between sleep-deprived shifts of work, parenting and homeschooling, or maybe mom #2 will have better luck. Doesn’t WordPress have a knight in shining armor who can just hit the backspace key 5 times for us and save the world? 😉 #defeated

    Thread Starter destinymalone

    (@destinymalone)

    ok — the FTP issues were due in part to a miscommunication of what the password was.

    I was able to connect with access to everything in godaddy dashboard as well as dreamweaver. was able to get the homepage looking normal again and regain access to wordpress login, values are back to what they should be…. but all the article links are still broken. I’m not sure if this could be a site cache issue? I am going to wait awhile and see if it resolves on its own. If not, I will continue to troubleshoot later.

    I followed the first step outlined here
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
    editing the wp-config.php file

    I’m really hoping the link issue resolves on its own. Will update here once I know.

    http://balabustamom.com/

    Thread Starter destinymalone

    (@destinymalone)

    I accessed the .htaccess file, found and removed this:

    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /home/
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /home/index.php [L]
    </IfModule>

    which looks like it was causing the redirect to /home instead of root, but now with that removed, instead of returning 500 errors, the article links are returning 404 errors.

    http://balabustamom.com

    I can’t win! What is going on?

    Thread Starter destinymalone

    (@destinymalone)

    ok, I just added this to the .htaccess file and like magic all is fixed. documenting here in case it can help someone else in the future

    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]

    # uploaded files
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?files/(.+) wp-includes/ms-files.php?file=$2 [L]

    # add a trailing slash to /wp-admin
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?wp-admin$ $1wp-admin/ [R=301,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -f [OR]
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} -d
    RewriteRule ^ – [L]
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(wp-(content|admin|includes).*) $2 [L]
    RewriteRule ^([_0-9a-zA-Z-]+/)?(.*\.php)$ $2 [L]
    RewriteRule . index.php [L]

    Thread Starter destinymalone

    (@destinymalone)

    resolved! hallelujah.

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