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1. CLPhoto
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hi, Hope someone can help. I mistakeningly changed my wordpress blog url in admin from http://www.creativelooksphotography.com.au/blog to just my main url, and now I cannot log into admin to change it as it constantly redirects. Is there a way to temporarialy disable this redirect so I can fix my mistake? Please help...

   Thanks,
   Linda

2. Jan Dembowski
   Volunteer Mod. & Brute Squad
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Linda,

   Backup your database and files first in case something goes really wrong.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/WordPress_Backups
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Backing_Up_Your_Database
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Restoring_Your_Database_From_Backup

   Then give this method a try by modifying your theme's functions.php file.

   http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Edit_functions.php

3. CLPhoto
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hi jdembowski,

   Thanks for your response. I was actually able to fix it by using phpMyAdmin to edit the sql database wp_options to change it back to the correct url. Phew!!! Your support is much appreciated tho!

   Cheers :)
   Linda

4. jimisaacs
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   3 solutions to this without reinstalling your blog completely:

   • Temporarily move/copy all of your wordpress files to your document root.
   • If you have access to an .htaccess file, AllowOverwrite it is enabled, and mod_rewrite is enabled, add a temporary rewrite rule before any other you may have to point your base url "/" to your old url "/blog".
   • Edit your database in the "(your_prefix)_options" table (most of the time this is the "wp_options" table, the default). The 2 options to check go by the option_names of: siteurl and home

   Please, always make a backup before editing your files and/or database like any of this ;)

5. jimisaacs
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Wow I took too long, can delete that last one please.

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