I guess this is a classic beginner fail
Regretfully it is. I roll my eyes with why it is made so easy to figuratively shoot oneself in the foot this way.
My guess is that you restored the settings to: “http://vargur.dk”
NO trailing / and no trailing bracket )
This cannot be correct for two reasons:
– it does not work
– I am unable to load “http://vaegur.dk/readme.html”
Suggest that you use either FTP or your website management file manager to find where your website files are and fix the database values.
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Vaegur
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My guess is that you restored the settings to: “http://vargur.dk”
NO trailing / and no trailing bracket )
This cannot be correct for two reasons:
– it does not work
– I am unable to load “http://vaegur.dk/readme.html”
I’m sorry, but I’m not sure if i understand what “trailing” is, could you try to explain?
This is how it currently looks: http://imgur.com/g1sjxg5
But even if I remove http:// there doesnt seem to be a difference… :/
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Vaegur
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A little “update” here:
I contacted my webhoste support and they told me, that I need to change the URL a lot of different places.
The thing is, that I didn’t change my URL by accident in the settings (like some have done), I bought a new domain and should apparently have done something before changing the URL…
So my question is, does anyone know which .php files that the domain are listed in or any other good solution?
Or should I accept the supports offer and make them fix it for 20 dollars?
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Vaegur
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Yet anoter question (sry for being “spammy”)
This is from WordPress
Changing Your Domain Name and URLs
Moving a website and changing your domain name or URLs (i.e. from http://example.com/site to http://example.com, or http://example.com to http://example.net) requires the following steps – in sequence.
Download your existing site files.
Export your database – go in to mySQL and export the database.
Move the backed up files and database into a new folder – somewhere safe – this is your site backup.
Log in to the site you want to move and go to Settings > General, then change the URLs. (ie from http://example.com/ to http://example.net ) – save the settings and expect to see a 404 page.
Download your site files again.
Export the database again.
Edit wp-config.php with the new server’s mySQL database name, user and password.
Upload the files.
Import the database on the new server.
Wouldn’t that be a solution for me?
As I’m understanding your question, you changed the domain name entirely, yes? But did you actually “move” your domain, like to a new site host? Or just a new server?
If you did not move your site, but simply obtained a new domain, and you still have all of the installed WP files still residing in the same place on your server, then you likely just need to be sure your new domain name is pointed to the same folder on your server as where your WP files are. It should point to the folder that contains the wp-config.php file, as that has your database connection information in it.
Then in your database (accessed using something like phpMyAdmin) there are two places where you have to have your new domain name entered without the trailing “/” and it looks like you have that right according to the image you posted.
So the blank page could be because your new domain name is pointed to a directory one level up from where your site files are, or a different server entirely…..be sure your DNS settings for the domain are exactly what your site hosting company gave you, if you registered the domain somewhere other than your site host.
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Vaegur
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you changed the domain name entirely, yes? But did you actually “move” your domain, like to a new site host? Or just a new server?
I bought a new domain name (still using the same server hosting service (or whatever it’s called))
The new domain name was by support changed to be the primary one, while the one I had before, was changed to a redirect.
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Vaegur
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If you did not move your site, but simply obtained a new domain, and you still have all of the installed WP files still residing in the same place on your server, then you likely just need to be sure your new domain name is pointed to the same folder on your server as where your WP files are. It should point to the folder that contains the wp-config.php file, as that has your database connection information in it.
Since the new domain (vaegur.dk is the new one) was made the primary one by support, I don’t really think I can answer this (+ that I’m not very good at this “file management field”)
I can send some more screen shots if needed?
The moving WordPress instructions are here:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress
Each situation is a little different.
There is a very well regarded plugin that assists with this very well, it is called DUPLICATOR
Your procedure at step 5 seem reasonable.
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Vaegur
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Good news
The site is back up and running after i got help from support
The (main) problem was that I had registred my domain from different places, and the name servers wasn’t the same.
Anyway, thanks š
Please somebody help me,
the problem i have is that i used database to changed my user name, password, my primary domain, to another new domain name i just registered. the new domain name is http://tosayit.com, though i used mysql to export the new domain name into wp-config.php but could not find the site. as i login i could not see the site i could only see a message like: error establishing a database connection.
i don’t know what to do so that i can login at this point, must it be that there is error somewhere?
should there be any solution from somebody please
