Title: changing URL!! Please help!
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# changing URL!! Please help!

 *  Resolved [benedetta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benedetta/)
 * (@benedetta)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-please-help/)
 * Hi
 * I have a question. I have built a wordpress site in the root directory on a server.
   The URL wasn’t active yet, so I have been given a test.url in the meantime. So
   I set up the wordpress website with the test.url address. Now the new URL address
   is about to get activated and it will point to the root directory and the test.
   url address will become the normal URL address.
 * What’s the procedure for changing URL, when the site will be sitting in the same
   root and only the url changes? Im not sure when this transfer is going to happen
   exactly. Is it just a matter of changing the URL name in the wordpress settings,
   if so when exactly should I do this, because Im scared I wont be able to access
   the site if I don’t do this change before the URL changes…
 * Any help would be much appreciated.
 * Thanks
 * Bene

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-please-help/#post-1284117)
 * [Moving WordPress « WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress),
   [Changing The Site URL « WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL),
   [Giving WordPress Its Own Directory « WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory).
 *  [buddha-trance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buddha-trance/)
 * (@buddha-trance)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-please-help/#post-1284121)
 * You can always change the url by accessing the database, check this video tutorial
   
   [http://educhalk.org/blog/the-difference-between-fixing-and-patching/](http://educhalk.org/blog/the-difference-between-fixing-and-patching/)
 * Also, this will help you
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
 *  Thread Starter [benedetta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benedetta/)
 * (@benedetta)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-please-help/#post-1284142)
 * Thanks for your help,
 * do I need to backup the whole database? The site won’t change location in the
   the server it’s just the URL name that will change…Do I have to go through all
   that process shown in the video?
 * Thanks
 *  [buddha-trance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buddha-trance/)
 * (@buddha-trance)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-please-help/#post-1284174)
 * Backing up the database before attempting any changes, is always a good idea.
   Look also at the other video he mentions, on changing the url in the wp_options
   table
    [http://educhalk.org/blog/changed-wordpress-blog-address-in-settings-locked-out-how-to-fix/](http://educhalk.org/blog/changed-wordpress-blog-address-in-settings-locked-out-how-to-fix/)
 * You basically have to put the correct url (the final one, after the server changes
   it) in “site url” and “home”, as indicated in the video.
 * I am thinking that if you fix it through phpMyAdmin, directly in the database
   table, pointing to the final url, when you point the browser to that address,
   the blog will appear as usual.
 * Hope this helps.
 *  [buddha-trance](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buddha-trance/)
 * (@buddha-trance)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-please-help/#post-1284178)
 * A small example:
 * currently in your admin settings, you have
 * WordPress address (URL): test.url
    Blog address (URL): test.url
 * (assuming that your blog is in the root directory)
 * if you are locked out from your blog, after the server gives you the new url,
   you access your database, and following the video, in wp_options table you change
 * siteurl: new.url (should be line 1 of wp_options)
    home: new.url (look around
   line 39-40 of wp_options)
 *  Thread Starter [benedetta](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benedetta/)
 * (@benedetta)
 * [16 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-url-please-help/#post-1284420)
 * Thank you! you’ve been really helpful. Fortunately the website and log-in page
   were still working after the URL change, as it was re-directing it automatically
   to the new URL… so I was still able to log-in. I logged in as usual and changed
   the WordPress address (URL) and theBlog address (URL) to the new address to avoid
   confusion and it worked out.

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