Help! I broke my WP installation!

Resolved shepherdjim
(@shepherdjim)

15 years, 1 month ago

I was in Dashboard – Settings – General and was just getting ready to make some changes, I inadvertently changed the WordPress Address (URL)

from http://www.hatchtown.com/wp/

to http://www.hatchtown.com

I then saved the change, AND THEN realized I’d meant to change the Blog Address NOT the WordPress address

I quickly re-set the AP addess back to include the /wp/ subdirectory, but it was too late. I can’t get in, view the WP stite, or anything.

Via my FTP program I can see that all the WP files, subdirectories, etc, are still there. How do I set this right?

Help! My wife’s gonna kill me!

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Samuel B
(@samboll)

15 years, 1 month ago

fix it back
http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

move it properly
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site

or you might like this option
http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

Thread Starter shepherdjim
(@shepherdjim)

15 years, 1 month ago

Thanks samboll! I learned a bunch by picking my way through the Codex articles you pointed me toward. And. I was eventually able to get WP running again. Quick story: I had had to re-do the password for the MYSql database at one point when trying to access it with PHPMyAdmin. Of course, that new password had to be updated in the WP files.

Now! I’m back to wanting to take our WordPress website “live.” I want to leave WP, that’s all the WP files AND all the “blog” files, in the /wp/ subdirectory. But, when people come to http://www.hatchtown.com I want them to see the WP installation instead of the old http://www.hatchtown.com/index.html.

Samuel B
(@samboll)

15 years, 1 month ago

http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory

don’t forget to rename or delete the old index.html so wordpress’ index.php can take over

Thread Starter shepherdjim
(@shepherdjim)

15 years, 1 month ago

Thank you! All is accomplished.

designbyvani
(@designbyvani)

14 years, 7 months ago

Hi. Okay my wordpress site used to be:

http://www.designbyvani.com/wordpress

well…i went into my wordpress/wp-admin tool and accidnetaly changed the path of the site to: http://www.designbyvani.com/experience

When i hit submit changes…everything dissappeared and i can’t get back into my wp admin to fix it back to the correct path!

help.
thanks.
Vani

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