Hi Steve.
I did the same thing in a different order. I changed both URL’s accidentally. There is a way to do what you wanted to do. It’s called Giving WP it’s own directory using a sub-directory install. See this link.
<a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory#Using_a_pre-existing_subdirectory_install">
You will need knowledge of FTP or text editing for code. Sounds like you could skip steps 1-3. Go on to 4 and 5. Essentially, you need to tell the server in the main URL that you changed to, where to look for your WP files.
I’m know expert, but I think this is part of your issue.
Jim
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STorti
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Hi Jim,
Thanks for the info…I’m investigating now but the problem is that I can’t even log in to the back end dashboard. It is just shutting me out of everything.
I’ll let you know if I figure it out.
Steve
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STorti
(@storti)
Hi Krishna,
Thanks for this also but I can’t even get into my panel, I just get this message:
Not Found
The requested URL /wp-login.php was not found on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
Via this url:
http://oceanstateconcessions.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Foceanstateconcessions.com%2Fwp%2Fwp-admin%2Foptions-general.php&reauth=1
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STorti
(@storti)
actually just as i c&p that I see what the problem is. It is automatically redirecting to what I edited, removing the “/wp/”
I need to know how to change that without being in the dashboard.
I have the same problem. Since we changed the url, the server is not looking for the WP files in the right location. @krishna, this CODEX is correct for what should have been done. @storti did it out of order and now cannot get to /wp-admin page.
I did it right and then was tweaking a file name on the home page changed the WordPress URL and also cannot get to the wp-admin page. How do you change it form outside the admin?
Can you physically move the files from the sub-directory to the root directory so that the server sees /wp-admin or will that screw up the URLs in the database?
@storti – one way to quickly get back to the dashboard is to edit the SITE URL and HOME URL in your database. These fields are in the wp_options table. Use your hosting control panel database tool (phpMyAdmin, for example) to do this. Once done, log back in then read this to achieve what you want 🙂
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#On_Your_Existing_Server
If you cannot login, try the steps here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Changing_the_URL_directly_in_the_database
@jimbo41,
Please continue with your thread here. It’s confusing for volunteers helping when we have to deal with more people in one thread.
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STorti
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Wow. It worked. Thank you all for the quick responses! I always stayed away from SQL but feeling accomplished.
Thanks @jimbo41 @krishna @2ninerniner2
Steve
@krishna SOrry will do in the future.
Database changes – excellent suggestion. I have not tried. I forgot, yet I knew about it. Having said that, I did it a different way.
The WP install was a hosted install by Go Daddy in a /dev sub-folder. I changed the settings of the site and WP location urls in General/Settings to the root by mistake, losing access to dev/wp-admin.
Go Daddy offers a WP management page from the hosting control center, where I was offered the preferred location of the root as an ideal place to host WP. I clicked the choice and the server automatically moved all the files from the sub-folder to the root folder, updated the .htaccess files, the database and the urls.
I was then able to login using /wp-admin and restore my ability to access the now live site.
Rare that I praise GD.
Hope this helps someone else.
JIm
Great! Also thanks for sharing the info here so that any other members having the same problem and using the same host can benefit from it. 🙂
hi everyone i think u guys can help me out in my problem…..
I got this problem today when i was making some changes to the plugins i don’t remember. But now the problem is that none of my site links are working properly.
whenever i clicked on any linked it referred me to 404 not found page, surprisingly that post is available in my wordpress dashboard. I changed it’s URL and now the new url is also showing same. I removed wordpress and uploaded the backup of 8th june but the problem was now there too.
Then i removed all and installed fresh wordpress but still all the links are referring me to 404 not found error page.
i have 404.php file also that redirects all error page to my home page but it is also not working.
site is http://www.asarkarinaukri.com
Need Urgent Help>>>>>>
@sweetiemansi01 – you need to start a new thread for help on these forums – you can do so here:
http://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting#postform
Please do NOT keep posting in other threads – five have been deleted.
