Title: Move/Installation Issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Move/Installation Issue

 *  [imagplay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagplay/)
 * (@imagplay)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moveinstallation-issue/)
 * This is complicated but I have a feeling there might be an easy solution. Basically
   I setup a WordPress site on one domain in GoDaddy. I changed the primary on it
   to go to another domain. It didn’t appear, but I didn’t realize at the time that
   it did not appear because the dns? was still pointed to an outside provider who
   hosted the original site. I called GoDaddy and they told me to reinstall WordPress
   because they did not notice it either. I uninstalled and reinstalled it with 
   same username and password, but it reinstalled in the /wordpress directory (which
   is probably lucky for me.) All the original wordpress files are in the correct
   directory (the home directory not the /wordpress directory). When the dns was
   pointed to the right place, the site appeared but we are unable to login to it
   but the login and application is actually on the /wordpress and not the home 
   directory. Again, it looks like most or all of the original files are in the 
   home directory for the site and it appears and works as it should except it is
   impossible to log in to. If you click on lost password in the /wp-login.php page
   in the root directory and enter the username or password it doesn’t do anything.
   Can someone help?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moveinstallation-issue/#post-1212850)
 * try one of these methods
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password](http://codex.wordpress.org/Resetting_Your_Password)
 *  Thread Starter [imagplay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagplay/)
 * (@imagplay)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moveinstallation-issue/#post-1212958)
 * tried the phpadmin method and it didn’t seem to work. When I changed the username
   is just generated a random number and not the value that I entered. Tried the
   random value as the password and that didn’t work either. I am wondering what
   files were deleted that might be crucial to the installation when the guy at 
   GoDaddy had me uninstall. Seems like the files are all there but I have a feeling
   I am going to have to reinstall. Are there easy instructions for reinstalling
   and then pointing it back to the database that is already there versus using 
   the brand new one that is created in a GoDaddy wordpress install? Any other ideas
   on how to fix this? The site looks and works correctly except I can’t login to
   make changes.
 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moveinstallation-issue/#post-1212990)
 * To reinstall, I think you can call the same DB in your wp-config.php. The DB 
   will still be there unless you deleted it or deleted your hosting account.
 * In your GoDaddy Hosting control panel, go to Databases, open MySQL, then click
   on the edit icon in the Action column. That will give you the MySQL server address
   for your wp-config.
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moveinstallation-issue/#post-1213002)
 * there are other methods mentioned in the link to change the password
    also, if
   what you say is true about your phpmyadmin attempt, then either you don’t know
   what you’re doing or there are serious problems with godaddy
 *  Thread Starter [imagplay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagplay/)
 * (@imagplay)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moveinstallation-issue/#post-1213009)
 * Tried the emergency password reset option also. This one did send me a notice
   to my email saying the password was reset – but again it doesn’t work when I 
   enter it in the login page.

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## Tags

 * [godaddy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/godaddy/)
 * [installation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/installation/)
 * [password problem](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/password-problem/)
 * [reinstallation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/reinstallation/)

 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [imagplay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/imagplay/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/moveinstallation-issue/#post-1213009)
 * Status: not resolved

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