What are you trying to change, exactly?
the public_html folder is usually set by your host, it has no bearing on your site name
To just change the actual name of your site, you go to settings->general and change it there
Or are you trying to change the url… like domain.com or domain.com/wordpress or something?
Hi Sally! You can change your WordPress site name by:
1. log into your WordPress Dashboard
2. Click “General” under “Settings” in the left menu
On that page you should see both your site title and description
Hi you all,
Thank you. I’m changing the url, not just the site name.
Here’s my problem: I don’t want to have to recreate the whole wp set up all over again under the new url. I directed the new url to the public_html folder, and that works fine. Site shows up, looks great.
But I can’t login to the old wp dashboard. My question is: what do I change in the dashboard — or maybe in the cpanel? — so I can login?
P.S. I know I’ll have to change it all back to login to the old dashboard to make the changes, no worries there.
you can change the site url easily enough to match your new domain
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL
Should be helpful for that
Can all be done from the cpanel end of things
Hi Sally. I’m not sure if I fully understand, but have tried adjusted the site url in your wp-config.php file? You may be able to do that on the fly so you can log into each of the dashboards that you need to.
http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Blog_address_.28URL.29
Thank you! It’s all fixed — I appreciate it very much.
Cool, glad you got it all working!!
