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1. Tim Squires
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Hello, I have a problem with a 404 on this url:

   http://www.7five7.com.au

   The wordpress install is in a subdirectory called "motocross"

   During development I set up a cpanel redirect to the "motocross" directory, but then I removed the redirect and followed the instructions on "Giving wordpress its own directory" (I used the "pre-existing subdirectory" install instructions)

   Now, when I go to the URL, the home page displays correctly, but if I navigate to the other pages and then try to go BACK to the home page, I get a 404 error.

   Also, I have noticed that when I try to go back to the home page, the old old url is displayed in the address bar - it says "http://7five7.com.au/motocross" instead of just "http://7five7.com.au"

   As the site needs to be up and running I'm on the verge of ditching everything and doing a complete reinstall of the site directly into the domain root, but would appreciate any help that would help me to avoid doing this :)

2. Miroslav Glavić
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   I went to the site, clicked on links.

   When I clicked the 7FIVE7 banner, the link goes to http://www.7five7.com.au/

   The HOME link (under 757 logo) points to http://7five7.com.au/motocross/

   Go to your admin dashboard and

   Settings > General

   Make sure

   WordPress Address (URL)
   Site Address (URL)

   Make sure the settings on those, say http://7five7.com.au/ instead of http://7five7.com.au/motocross/

   Click SAVE CHANGES

   Refresh your homepage.

   Voila

3. Tim Squires
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   The instructions said to only change the site address, but I followed your advice, and also changed the wordpress address. I got another error, and now all the CSS from the site is missing, and I can't log into the admin panel... going from bad to worse I'm afraid

4. Miroslav Glavić
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Did you install wordpress on the root directory?

   Like which directory did you put the actual files?

5. Tim Squires
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   The files are in the "motocross" subdirectory

6. Christine
   WP Yogi & Forum Moderator
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Hi Tim,

   You'll want to go and change the WordPress Address (URL) to http://7five7.com.au/motocross

   and the site url to
   http://7five7.com.au/

   To do this you will need to access your database via phpMyAdmin, change the wordpress url to what it was in the wp_options table.

   Then, you'll want to take the index.php from your motorcross directory, update it to say:

   require('./motorcross/wp-blog-header.php');

   on line 7 and then your site should be like it should.

   I do this all the time when I work on sites and wrote a post detailing my steps -
   http://www.bluelimemedia.com/2011/01/31/setting-up-wordpress-for-developmen/

   Good luck

7. Tim Squires
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Thanks Christine,

   Many thanks, that sounds great, but if it's OK I have two questions:

   1. In php/myadmin, I am confused by the difference between option-name and option-value. I can change the option_name to http://7five7.com.au/motocross, but I can't figure out how to change the option_value (does this need to change as well as the option_name?)

   2. When I modify line 7 in index.php - should that file remain in the motocross directory, or do I need to copy it into the domain root and make the modification there?

   Thank you for your help!

8. Christine
   WP Yogi & Forum Moderator
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Q1 - not sure if it's option_name.. but whatever is http://7five7.com.au should be
   http://7five7.com.au/motocross

   Q2 - the new updated index.php goes in your root. directory.

9. Tim Squires
   Member
   Posted 6 months ago #
   

   Thanks Christine - I do appreciate your help very much. I have decided that it may be easier to use BackupBuddy and do a fresh installation and start over. Many thanks for your input and advice.

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