Do you have access to the backend database? If yes, you can update the settings by opening the wp-options table. Here is the how to from the Codex
No I dont have access to anything, im completely logged out
Can you tell how you changed your domain name?
If I understand correctly, you have made the domain change from the Admin Dashboard? If so, I can understand you are logged out of WordPress, but are you able to login to your webhost?
Yes that’s correct I wasn’t sure If I could just do that and have wordpress link with another site but I guess not. In any event my webhost his Host Gator and am able to log into there. I went to uninstall wordpress but when I go to re-install it it says that files for wordpress are already there.
So I looked up on the Host Gator fourms and said to just delete the folder (so I uninstalled the program) and to delete my sql database, as of now there’s no database listed.
Do you have a backup of the files & folders? If yes, you can easily restore old files & database via your webhost’s cPanel.
Let me know if you have a backup and I can guide you to restore your site.
I don’t think So. I really didn’t have much on the site yet. Im just trying to get wordpress to sync with my website again so I can re-use it.
If I go to reinstall wordpress this is what I get:
Error: The following files already exist:
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-admin
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-content
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-content/plugins
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-content/themes
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-includes
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-includes/js
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-includes/js/jquery
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-includes/js/jquery/ui
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-includes/js/mediaelement
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-includes/js/tinymce
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-includes/js/tinymce/skins
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-includes/js/tinymce/skins/wordpress
/home2/ab94878/public_html/wp-includes/js/tinymce/skins/wordpress/images
Ok. So here is what you can do (I assume you are okay with deleting everything and starting fresh, if not, please take backups)
(0) Open wp-config.php from File Manager and store your Database Name, User and Password in a new text file.
(1) From the file manager, delete all the wordpress files
(2) Through phpMyAdmin, select all database tables and drop them. Don’t delete the database & users, you can still use them.
(3) Re-install WordPress. (I think Softaculous will automatically create DB & users, but if you have an option, reuse your existing DB name & user)
(3.a) While reinstalling, enter the right domain details so that this is saved in the options table
Worked! Just needed to delete those files, up and running now, thanks 🙂
