Title: ABSPATH has wrong value?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# ABSPATH has wrong value?

 *  [Denny Brown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dennispbrown/)
 * (@dennispbrown)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/abspath-has-wrong-value/)
 * I’m working with a new ISP who is not used to supporting WordPress. After a recent
   install, lots of features don’t work. (Upload, plugin automatic upgrade, visual
   editor, permalinks.) I’ve traced most of the problems to what looks like a bad
   value for ABSPATH. With a little debugging code, I found that ABSPATH = ../ That
   seems wrong to me. I was expecting a full path, something like /home/xxx/public_html/.
 * Does anybody know what to do about this? Maybe mods to php.ini?
 * TIA for any clues or pointers…
 * -Denny

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 *  [mzacco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mzacco/)
 * (@mzacco)
 * [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/abspath-has-wrong-value/#post-887946)
 * I had the same thing. ABSPATH stored the entire query string. Like this: ‘[http://www.site.com?step=2/&#8217](http://www.site.com?step=2/&#8217);
 * I don’t know this happens, but it’s fixable.
 * 1. Log into you MySQL using phpMyAdmin.
    2. Go to the table wp_options 3. Here
   you should see that ‘siteurl’ (should be row 1) is screwed up. 4. Press the fancy
   pen icon and change the value to the actual site name. Leave a strailing slash‘
   [http://www.superfancywpsite.com/&#8217](http://www.superfancywpsite.com/&#8217);
 * 5. Find row 39 ‘home’. Change that one too.
 * Good luck,
    -Marcus

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/abspath-has-wrong-value/#post-887946)
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