Posted 2 years ago #
I have just installed WP and intend to have the site all looking nice before I point the DNS servers.
Unfortunately, the old site is live elswhere (another server/host) and logging into the admin area is impossible as it won't accept the IP address only the full http://www.mydomain.com/wp-admin/ ... which has no WP installed of course.
Any ideas getting around this?
Posted 2 years ago #
Hello,
You can just update the site and home urls to the IP address by using this query on your mysql database on the new server.
update wp_options set option_value = ‘http://insert_ipaddress_here’ where option_name = ‘home’ or option_name = ’siteurl’;
Once you perform the above, you will then be able to access the wp-admin panel using the IP address on the new server. You can then make your adjustments and run the query again to set it back to your domain name when you are ready to point dns over.
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Posted 2 years ago #
I'm following these directions on a shared server space. The query worked and updated 2 lines in the database.
When I go to my server's IP address, I think I need to tell the shared server which account I'm using.
What else would I do to access the wp-admin folder?
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