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1. Lyon111
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi everyone, i have a big problem, please help in any way you can.

   I had a domain (x), and my wordpress blog was registered with that domain, but i lost because i did not renew it in time for another year, so now it is lost.

   Now i can not access my blog nor my admin panel because that domain does not work, so i registered a new domain (y), and i went to see if i could login now, but it does not let me, the old domain is down, so i can not login, i know i have to change the domain link inside admin panel, but how do i do that if i can not login?

   Please help anyone.

2. Chris_K
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You have a few options -- check out Changing_The_Site_URL in the codex.

3. Zulfikar
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   You will need to contact your hosting company and depending on how long since the domain expired they may still have the files associated with the domain on the serve. They have removed your access to it, but if they are nice enough they may allow you to have the files back - they may do this if your new domain is still hosted with them.

   If unfornutately the files have been deleted off the server then am sorry to say that all is now lost and you need to start over with the new domain. This is why it is very important to make a periodic backup of your site to your local machine - backup is not just for upgrades, it should done regulary just incases like these.

   I hope your host provider can help you out, it would be a real shame to loose all the work. Good luck.

4. Lyon111
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I made backups of my db every single day, what can i do with it?

5. Zulfikar
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Set up a new database and import the backup. Upload wordpress files to your new domain and point the wp-config to the new database - i.e database name, database user name and password. You should then have your site back up and running on the new domain.

   Hopefully that helps resolve the problem.

6. Lyon111
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks Chris_K!!!

   The link pointed to the solutions page, i had to ad the following lines to the wp-config.php file located in the root of my blog:

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

   but at first it did not worked, i had to insert the full path to my blog:

   define('WP_HOME','http://example.com/blog');
   define('WP_SITEURL','http://example.com/blog');

   Then i went to try to open my blog, and it worked again, and now i can login, so thanks to both of you.

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