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1. ramonisscrewed
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   SO, being the noob I am, I messed with the WordPress address (URL) under Settings>General and now I cant get to my dashboard to reverse the damage. What can I do?

   When I go to my dashboard, I get this error message:
   "Page Not Found

   The page you tried to access does not exist on this server. This page may not exist due to the following reasons:

   You are the owner of this web site and you have not uploaded (or incorrectly uploaded) your web site. For information on uploading your web site using FTP client software or web design software, click here for FTP Upload Information.

   The URL that you have entered in your browser is incorrect. Please re-enter the URL and try again.

   The Link that you clicked on incorrectly points to this page. Please contact the owner of this web site to inform them of this situation."

2. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 8 months ago #

   fix it back
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

   move it properly if you want to change url's
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site

3. ramonisscrewed
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Thanks for your help. I tried to edit wp-config.php and the relocate method, to no avail. I have many files called functions.php and dont know which one to edit.

   To be clear: I can still visit my site, I just cant get to my dashboard to edit it. And exactly what i did was change my URL from http://doratexas.com/wordpress to http://doratexas.com/wordpress/home

   Also, my site looks very little like it did before I did this. It still has the same content but none of the same format.
   doratexas.com/wordpress

   Thanks again for your time.

4. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 8 months ago #

   this always works, though the other method should
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Changing_the_URL_directly_in_the_database

   the code in your wp-config.php would look exactly like this

   define('WP_HOME','http://doratexas.com/wordpress');
   define('WP_SITEURL','http://doratexas.com/wordpress');

5. ramonisscrewed
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   thats the code i tried. I just tried it again, i put it at the very end of the file. I shouldnt have to restart my browser between changes of the files, right?

6. Samuel B
   moderator
   Posted 8 months ago #

   it won't work at the end of the file -remove it from there
   if you read the codex carefully it says to put that above where it says "That's all - Stop editing"

7. ramonisscrewed
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   sorry I thought it said to put it after all the defines. But I just put it in the right place and still nothing. I just downloaded phpMyadmin so ill try that out.

8. ramonisscrewed
   Member
   Posted 8 months ago #

   Thanks for all your help. I was freaking out last night and misread the codex.

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