Title: Can WordPress automatically reinstall itself?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Can WordPress automatically reinstall itself?

 *  Resolved [Tekky07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tekky07/)
 * (@tekky07)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-wordpress-automatically-reinstall-itself/)
 * I’m sorry if this is in the wrong forum, I did a search and couldn’t find anything.
 * So I have one website that I messed up the WordPress Address and Site URL and
   it took away the theme and everything and could not access the WordPress admin
   page. I do not have access to the server the site is located on, but I found 
   how to fix it, that’s not my issue.
 * I went to check the site the other day to pull information from it, to move to
   the new site (the old site was going to be taken down eventually so I didn’t 
   care that I couldn’t access the admin panel), and WordPress had been resintalled
   with a fresh copy.
 * My question is, is there anyway WordPress will resintall itself automatically
   if there is an error with the WordPress Address and Site URL, or would this have
   to physically be done by a human being?

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 *  [@mercime](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mercime/)
 * (@mercime)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-wordpress-automatically-reinstall-itself/#post-3673663)
 * WordPress doesn’t reinstall itself, needs human actions, no ghost stories as 
   far I know. Could be that what you thought was a dead site only need clearing
   browser or server caches. Where are you hosted?
 *  Thread Starter [Tekky07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tekky07/)
 * (@tekky07)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-wordpress-automatically-reinstall-itself/#post-3673672)
 * It’s hosted at DreamHost. I don’t believe it would be the server cache that needed
   clearing. It was my error of changing the WordPress Address and Site URL to the
   wrong address. I don’t have access to server itself so I could not use this fix:
   [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
 * I was just going to let the site go in the process of moving all the information,
   until I looked one day and WordPress had been freshly installed.
 * But you answered my question, thank you mercime 🙂

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Tekky07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tekky07/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-wordpress-automatically-reinstall-itself/#post-3673672)
 * Status: resolved

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