AAAAHH what did I do in my options?

psharbaugh
(@psharbaugh)

16 years, 7 months ago

I just set up a new blog and everything was going great. I’d successfully installed two popular plugins and was configuring the blog’s basic options … and somehow made a minor change so that now my main blog URL and /installs URL give me only Index pages. Worse, it won’t allow me to login and make administrative changes. I’m completely locked out. I can’t imagine what I did to cause this, but here’s what I was doing right before it happened:

On the options page (I think) there’s was an option to change the main blog URL and the “installs” URL. Naturally, I want people to type in my blog name and get the blog itself instead of an index page, as I was getting. So I changed the main blog address in the options window from http://www.manandultraman.com/installs to just http://www.manandultraman.com/ and then I hit “Update Options.”

Now I’m locked out of my own blog (oh the ignominy). I can pull up nothing but two index pages, and I’m clueless and optionless. Help!

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MichaelH
(@michaelh)

16 years, 7 months ago
To get back to where you were, use this tutorial: http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

Now to set it so visitors see your WordPress at http://www.manandultraman.com

1. In Administration > Options > General, change your Blog address (URL) to http://www.manandultraman.com. Please note your WordPress address (URL) should be http://www.manandultraman.com/installs (no trailing /).
2. Create an index.php in web-root folder (same folder that holds wordpress):
```
<?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./installs/wp-blog-header.php');
?>
```
3. Update your permalinks.

Even though the actual WordPress files reside in a sub-directory, with index.php file in your webroot, and the with Options->General admin page Blog address (URL) is changed so that WordPress acts as your main page. This particular setup is described at: http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory
Thread Starter psharbaugh
(@psharbaugh)

16 years, 7 months ago

Holy smokes …. thanks for the advice but I don’t even know what phpMyAdmin is, much less how to install, configure, and use it per the install instructions. I’m not a coder of any kind. I downloaded it, but I might as well have a brain surgery patient on a table in front of me and be told, “First, go ahead and fix the brain.”

Is there any other way of fixing this problem without using phpMyAdmin?

MichaelH
(@michaelh)

16 years, 7 months ago

Most hosts offer access to phpMyAdmin and I believe Dreamhost does also.

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