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melindablueshoe
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Posted 1 year ago #

I made the mistake of snooping around with changes that I'm not savvy enough to understand, and in the process I changed the "WordPress.com URL" (under the Settings - General tab). It was originally http://www.melindamckee.com, and I changed it to http://www.melindamckee.com/blog in order to....see what would happen...sigh.

What happened is that everything freaked out (go to melindamckee.com and you'll see), and I can't even login to my wordpress admin. When I click on the "login" link, I just get a 404 error.

My brother's design company hosts the website for me, so I'm assuming this is something that has to be cleaned up on their end?
melindablueshoe
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

(And yes, the one post that is up there will seem quite ironic. :)
123milliseconds
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

WordPress.com have their own forums

We do not support them here, since they work different from self hosted wp installs.
arch1
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I had the same problem Thurs and my blog is still down and Im not on self hosted instals.

I get Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

I went on error logs in my hosting account and got these main message

line 1: host: command not found

[Fri Feb 11 00:27:52 2011] [error] [client 209.85.238.215] Premature end of script headers: /var/chroot/home/content/a/r/c/archoni/html/blog/index.phpZend Optimizer requires Zend Engine API version 20021010.The Zend Engine API version 20050606 which is installed, is newer.Contact Zend Technologies at ww.zend.com/ for a later version of Zend Optimizer.

[Fri Feb 11 00:28:37 2011] [error] [client 114.111.95.132] File does not exist: /var/chroot/home/content/a/r/c/archoni/html/robots.txtZend Optimizer requires Zend Engine API version 20021010.The Zend Engine API version 20050606 which is installed, is newer.Contact Zend Technologies at ww.zend.com/ for a later version of Zend Optimizer.

my hosting support says to get older version..but they still have not sent me..

Anyone any other ideas?
melindablueshoe
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Sorry, I meant WordPress.org, not .com.
123milliseconds
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

change PHP settings via .htaccess

Turn off 'Zend' add following line in .htaccess file.

php_value zend_optimizer.optimization_level = 0

At least to get site working again; but slightly slower; if you do not notice the slower part; problem solved
arch1
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I tried that but instead of internal server error message I now get a blank screen http://arch1design.com/blog/

# php_value zend_optimizer.optimization_level = 0

# BEGIN WPSuperCache
# END WPSuperCache

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

# END WordPress
123milliseconds
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

melindablueshoe posted initial question

UNFORTUNATELY I did not answer any of that, since arch1 BUTTED in this topic and mess up everything.

melindablueshoe please start a new topic and tell others to START their own topics

Then responses to your question will make sense.

melindablueshoe please post a link to that new topic here since I am subscribed to this post, then I can start helping yo there.
123milliseconds
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Sorry this rude interruption and hijack of your topic lost you one day already ; without responses.
arch1
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

Apologies melindablueshoe I did not mean to butt in but merely added that I did the same as you. And letting you Know what my response was and problems I have been facing and I have being trying since Thursday to get my site back.

I tried 123milliseconds sugestion but like I say I get a blank screen now.

Any more ideas 123milliseconds?

If you like I will start a new topic if this interferes with melindablueshoe.

Thanks
123milliseconds
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

>>I had the same problem Thurs and my blog is still down and Im not on self hosted instals.

Let your host fix the Zend issue; they should not give you shared hosting that does not work;

or they should not change PHP version to cause that.

OR What did you chg on Thur for this to happen?
arch1
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

I did the same as melindablueshoe and messed around with the URL
When I tried to revert back to the original one by

# In the Databases section of the Hosting Control Center, click MySQL.

# Next to your WordPress database, click Manage via phpMyAdmin.

# Enter the database's username and password, and then click Go.

# Click the top menu on the left-hand side, for example: blo11381542067.

# Click wp_options.

# Go to the Browse tab.

# In row containing the value siteurl, click Edit.

# In the option_value field, delete your old URL, enter your new URL, and then click Go.

# Go to the next page.

# In row containing the value home, click Edit.

# In the option_value field, delete your old URL, enter your new URL, and then click Go.

I did this and then began getting error server message and checked error logs and above message.

The only other thing I did that day was add 2 plugins
123milliseconds
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

>>Zend Optimizer requires Zend Engine API version 20021010.The Zend Engine API version 20050606 which is installed, is newer.Contact Zend Technologies at ww.zend.com/ for a later version of Zend Optimizer.

Your PHP version and the Zend version do not match

They upgraded PHP or you did.

Let your host fix the Zend issue; they should not give you shared hosting that does not work;
ClaytonJames
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

@melindablueshoe

The long and the short of it, is that you simply need to change the addresses in your database back to what they were. One of the methods described in the following article will help you fix it.

Changing The Site URL Be sure to read the details of each method closely.

Changing the addresses directly from the database using phpMyAdmin is usually a pretty painless task.

Some additional information for you, for after it's fixed.

Moving WordPress
123milliseconds
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

#arch1

YOur url change seems as if it will work ... it tried to serve the correct index.php but you have a PHP Zend API mismatch.

/var/chroot/home/content/a/r/c/archoni/html/blog/index.php

>>Zend Optimizer requires Zend Engine API version 20021010
>>>The Zend Engine API version 20050606 which is installed, is newer.Contact Zend Technologies at ww.zend.com/ for a later version of zend Optimizer.

This error has nothing to do with wp
arch1
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

@123milliseconds

What go daddy help say is:

you previously had a working blog that stopped working when you changed settings in your control panel for WordPress. Your modifications did not change your hosting environment, it changed the application's ability to function properly. This means you need to modify the control panel back to those original settings to restore the function of your blog. If you cannot remember what they were, you may want to install a second application of WordPress in your account, and migrate the content for your existing blog to it or use information from the WordPress Codex's site to help you try to repair the changes you have made. For example, their article at http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress has information about how to move your files and database content for your blog to a new one, and also addresses what to do if you accidentally change your WordPress URL.

I modified the control panel back to the original settings ie http://arch1design.com/blog/, before I lost it

I changed URL to original in options Manage via phpMyAdmin and home.

Ive added addedthese two lines to your wp-config.php, where "example.com" is the NEW location of your site.
define('WP_HOME',''">http://arch1design.com/blog/');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://arch1design.com/blog/');

Still no luck

I cannot log on to my admin so cannot initiate the following:

wp-login.php can be used to (re-)set the URIs (Insert the following lines after
require( dirname(__FILE__) . '/wp-load.php' );

//FIXME: do comment/remove these hack lines. (once the database is updated)
update_option('siteurl', 'http://your.domain.name/the/path' );
update_option('home', 'http://your.domain.name/the/path' );

The only option looks like to do as they suggest and install a second application of WordPress in your account, and migrate
the content for your existing blog

Is this the best option and will the old links on other websites go to the new wordpress I set up?

Thanks for your help
123milliseconds
Member
Posted 1 year ago #

>>>The only option looks like to do as they suggest and install a second application of WordPress in your account, and migrate
the content for your existing blog

>>>Is this the best option and will the old links on other websites go to the new wordpress I set up?

I think this is easiest, HOWEVER the ZEnd error is about PHP and ZEND being unable to work togethter; entirely outside WP.

I still do not understand how this happened; your changes could not have caused it.

CREate a NEW database for new wp install
Install a new wp in a new different folder

follow directions to backup old wp
http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups

then restore old wp database into new wp database

http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

Start a new forum post when you get stuck ; other people can help you from there;

I would like to help 20-30 people per day ; but expect 20+ questions fro m you till we get you fully working again.
sakyant
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

HAHA silly billies you dont need to touch a single line of code anywhere
heres how you get your admin panel and site back first;

open your themes folder in ftp
rename the selected them you had for your site to something else
upload the same theme again
refresh your browser
fixed!
sakyant
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

I Mean a new copy of that theme (make sure its same version, if you had customized images then uploasd those over later)

The files for wordpress that include the entry you deleted are in the themes folder not in ther admin files or includes.
A simple naming of a functioning theme to the same name as the theme folder you screwed up will renew access to your site and make it work again
Rev. Voodoo
Volunteer Moderator
Posted 11 months ago #

@sakyant, that will do absolutely nothing to remedy the situation this thread is discussing, which is improper URLs in the general admin settings.

It has zero to do with themes. What you are posting is a solution to an entirely different problem
arch1
Member
Posted 11 months ago #

@sakyant thanks for the suggestion

the solution to the problem was related with blank page in permalinks.

full story on another thread (http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-still-down-8-days-zend-optimiser?replies=29#post-1960306)

briefly.....

This was the only issue I had not tried in someway to resolve because I thought it was not showing because it was related to the issue not the cause.

I did google, found this........

"...I'll pass along what got my blank pages, posts and permalinks working again. I was trying to use just /%postname%/ as the permalink structure but when I did the whole Permalink Settings page went blank, along with my website. Then after noodling around I did the following and it worked:
1) Went to phpmyadmin and deleted /%postname%/ from permalink_structure in wp_options. (This brought back my Permalink Settings page in WP)
2) Set Permalink Structure to Month and name.
3) Used Custom Permalinks plugin to set my posts link structure."

.............

I tried the above and http://arch1design.com/blog/ restored

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