What you can do is download the current version to your computer, and simply copy over all the files (via FTP) to your current WordPress directory, except the wp-config.php, wp-settings.php files, and except the wp-content directory.
That should give you a clean install of WordPress, and it will replace that missing file as well.
Also don’t forget to update the site_url and home_url, in your database wp-options table and make sure its poiting to the new domain name.
Hi guys!
Thanks for your responses. I have my issue resolved thanks to an awesome HostGator Tech. I am still not quite sure what she did to make it work but I can now access my WordPress dashboard. Unfortunately I have to start all over. Hopefully I can just use my WP files I backed up…. !
This is the chain of events getting my site “back up”:
– Apparently my site and home url were still showing lapetiteidea.com (previous domain)
so she updated it to sassafrasink.com inside of the phpmyadmin.
– She disabled my plugins.
– Changed my theme to WP default
– Tried some other themes.
– None of these steps worked.
– Finally she Re-Installed WordPress using QuickInstall
What happened is when I moved the domain as primary I should have installed the WordPress on the root. However yI had a folder for sassafrasink.com. That is what the tech told me but I still dont quite understand what she meant by that. I am just thankful I can access my dashboard.
This is the link she gave to me to help me understand what went wrong:
http://support.hostgator.com/articles/cpanel/what-is-a-document-root-folder
Ok, yeah, that all makes sense.
Go ahead and mark this topic as resolved on the right hand side of the page.
Thanks!
