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1. Handshake Media
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I am freaking out right now because this new online magazine of mine is about to launch, and I just lost all of my formatting and my ability to even access my dashboard.

   This is the website: http://thehandshakemagazine.com/home/

   I tried to change the address to http://thehandshakemagazine.com and everything disappeared.

   I get the following message when I try to do anything:
   "The requested URL /wp-login.php was not found on this server."

   There have been dozens of threads concerning this same problem in the past, and none of them have a solution.

   Please tell me I don't have to start over.

2. K-Fella
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Double check the style.css file exists in your theme folder.

3. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You need to change the site urls back again:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

4. Handshake Media
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I apologize for being such a novice, but I don't know how to do either of these things, because I can't get to my dashboard at http://thehandshakemagazine.com/home/wp-admin. If I could get to http://thehandshakemagazine.com/home/wp-admin, it wouldn't be a problem.

   Would you mind explaining how to change the site urls back again, step-by-step, as if you were talking to an eight year-old? Because that's what I feel like right now.

   So frustrating.

   Thanks.

5. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   You don't need access to your dashboard. Please see the link I gave above.

6. Handshake Media
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks so much! For future searchers, the following worked:

   "If you have access to the site via FTP, then this method will help you quickly get a site back up and running, if you changed those values incorrectly.

   1. FTP to the site, and get a copy of the active theme's functions.php file. You're going to edit it in a simple text editor (like notepad) and upload it back to the site.

   2. Add these two lines to the file, immediately after the initial "<?php" line.

   update_option('siteurl','http://example.com/blog');
   update_option('home','http://example.com/blog');
   Use your own URL instead of example.com, obviously.

   3. Upload the file back to your site, in the same location. FileZilla offers a handy "edit file" function to do all of the above rapidly; if you can use that, do so.

   4. Load the login or admin page a couple of times. The site should come back up.

   5. Repeat the above steps, but remove those lines. IMPORTANT: Do NOT leave those lines in there. Remove them immediately after the site is up and running again."

   Back in business!

7. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Any one of the 4 methods outlined in the link I gave above will work.

8. Handshake Media
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Oh yeah, definitely. Didn't mean for it to sound like they wouldn't! Thanks for your help. Just posted another thread, if you can help on that, as well!

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