Title: site and admin missing Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # site and admin missing * [distinctivedog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/distinctivedog/) * (@distinctivedog) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-and-admin-missing/) * I am creating a site using the Viva Revival theme and plan to use wordpress as a cms for my site. I had everything almost complete but the blog link in the navigation was broken. I was looking for a way to update the link and tried changing the links under General Settings. After testing a couple different links I changed it back to the original links that were there ([http://distinctivedog.com/wordpress](http://distinctivedog.com/wordpress)) and now I just get “Opps! We can’t find this page” messages. My site and the admin site are not accessible. The site comes up, but all the theme and formats are gone. I read another post and tried editing the functions.php file with: update_option(‘siteurl’,’[http://distinctivedog/wordpress’](http://distinctivedog/wordpress’);); update_option(‘home’,’[http://distinctivedog/wordpress’](http://distinctivedog/wordpress’);); right after the first line, but still could not access the site. Can someone please help? Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) * [saildude](https://wordpress.org/support/users/saildude/) * (@saildude) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-and-admin-missing/#post-1483579) * This should let you log-in: [http://distinctivedog.com/wordpress/wp-login.php](http://distinctivedog.com/wordpress/wp-login.php) * Just changing the location under Setting >> General without doing the rest of the story is real bad. If you want to run your site from the root these should help: * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site) or [http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory](http://codex.wordpress.org/Giving_WordPress_Its_Own_Directory) * When I “moved” my site from a sub-directory to the root I did not do anything in the functions.php so I have not a clue what you did or did not do there, but I suspect it was not so good. * One of your links is distinctivedog/wordpress and it is missing the .com part of the string, (that was the “← Back to Distinctive Dog Treats” bottom link on the log-in page) might be just a spelling error or two gave you the wrong turn. A bunch of your other links are missing the “.com” part so you probably have a spelling issue somewhere. * `http://distinctivedog.com/wordpress/%E2%80%9D/wordpress/about/distinctive-dog- story` – – has a problem with and extra Quote and wordpress – [http://distinctivedog.com/wordpress/about/distinctive-dog-story](http://distinctivedog.com/wordpress/about/distinctive-dog-story)– does work. * This should give you some help to start. * Thread Starter [distinctivedog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/distinctivedog/) * (@distinctivedog) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-and-admin-missing/#post-1483822) * [http://distinctivedog.com/wordpress/wp-login.php](http://distinctivedog.com/wordpress/wp-login.php) takes me to a login page, but I cannot log in. With my user name and password it takes me to: [http://www1.dlinksearch.com/25165003/distinctivedog/wordpress/wp-login.php](http://www1.dlinksearch.com/25165003/distinctivedog/wordpress/wp-login.php). * I can get to my site at [http://www.distinctivedog.com/wordpress](http://www.distinctivedog.com/wordpress) but the theme is not applied and all the links go to this dlinksearch page as well. * This all happened by simply changing the url in the General Settings in admin. I changed it back to the original url, but the site was not fixed by this action. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-and-admin-missing/#post-1483823) * One of these methods should work: * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL) * Thread Starter [distinctivedog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/distinctivedog/) * (@distinctivedog) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-and-admin-missing/#post-1483827) * I tried the first two methods and they did not work. I go to the login screen( that still has no theme applied) and when I login it takes me to the “Oops, we can’t find this page” screen. Like I said, I can access the home page (with no theme) but the links all take me to the “Oops” page. I can type in the urls of the pages and find them, but with no theme. So the structure of my site is messed up with no theme and links that don’t work. I cannot log in to admin. Any other thoughts out there? * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-and-admin-missing/#post-1483828) * Try this one: * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Changing_the_URL_directly_in_the_database](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Changing_the_URL_directly_in_the_database) * Thread Starter [distinctivedog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/distinctivedog/) * (@distinctivedog) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-and-admin-missing/#post-1483833) * Thanks for the help. None of the solutions worked. I consulted with support at GoDaddy and after making the changes, the site was dynamically changing the site back to the broken state. There was some kind of corruption so we deleted the site and re-established my account. Now I have the old site backed up externally and re-uploaded the design template to the new site. Everything ok so far, but I’m having trouble finding the content files. I want to copy and paste page text from the old site to the new. I had text on the pages and sidebars, but can’t find it. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-and-admin-missing/#post-1483834) * Most of the content would have been in the MySQL database. Did they delete that too? Maybe they forgot to restore it? * Thread Starter [distinctivedog](https://wordpress.org/support/users/distinctivedog/) * (@distinctivedog) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-and-admin-missing/#post-1483837) * It’s gone. I think I can recreate everything fairly easily. Thanks for all your help. Really appreciate it. * Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * (@macmanx) * [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-and-admin-missing/#post-1483838) * You’re welcome! I’m sorry that your content could not be saved. Viewing 9 replies - 1 through 9 (of 9 total) The topic ‘site and admin missing’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [General Settings](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/general-settings/) * [site gone](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/site-gone/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 9 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/) * Last activity: [16 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-and-admin-missing/#post-1483838) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics