Unable to login to my blog

Did you try to change your URL?

Hey rohmellglover:

I’m having the same issue as you. I did something STUPID on Wed night and tried changing the Default setting in my Dashboard for:

WordPress address (URL)
Site address (URL)

As soon as I tried to update I got the 500 Internal Server Error. I went right back to my General Settings and changed back to the Default, but am still getting the I.S.E. whenever I try getting to the Dashboard of my new site rjballoondude.com/wp-admin

I’ve contacted my hosting company; they couldn’t help. I’ve looked on Youtube for help on editing in Filezilla, but couldn’t find anything.

The only thing I found was this:

1. FTP to the site, and get a copy of the active theme’s functions.php file. You’re going to edit it
in a simple text editor (like notepad) and upload it back to the site.

2. Add these two lines to the file, immediately after the initial “<?php” line.

update_option(‘siteurl’,’http://example.com/blog&#8217;);
update_option(‘home’,’http://example.com/blog&#8217;);

Use your own URL instead of example.com, obviously.

But, I cannot find “<?php” anywhere.

The actual page for this info is here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Edit_functions.php

If you find a solution, please let me know, or if I find a solution, I’ll keep you posted. This is so aggravating.

Ummm, try this: http://rohmellglover.com/wp-admin

I just typed that in and your blog opened. Not sure why you’re typing in wp-login. To get to your WP Dashboard, from all the training I’ve been on, it’s always been http://www.domainname.com/wp-admin

Were you able to find the “<?php” in Filezilla? I can’t find that anywhere. I’ve spent all day, going line by line in the file but just can’t locate it, so can’t add in:

update_option(‘siteurl’,’http://example.com/blog&#8217;);
update_option(‘home’,’http://example.com/blog&#8217;);

I will try a few other things later tonight, but I’m really at a loss for what to do.

What’s happening for me, when I try to get to my Dashboard, I type in:

http://www.rjballoondude.com/wp-admin

But, I get redirected to:

http://rjballoondude.com/rj-balloon-dude/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rjballoondude.com%2Fwp-admin%2F&reauth=1

But no page opens…instead I get the 500 Internal Server Error everytime.

I’m sure if I knew HTML there is probably a way to change this LONG link, to get in, but I don’t know html

Hey fonglh and thank you kindly for your email. I went to the link you posted but unfortunately it won’t work because I cannot get to my Dashboard of the site in question.

As soon as I type in http://www.rjballoondude.com/wp-admin, rather than being taken to WordPress to Login, I’m taken to the Error page…Internal Server Error.

However, when I installed this new site, I just did so as an addon and didn’t put it into a subdir. I never do that. I actually don’t know how to do that. On all the many training video’s I’ve watched, they always say ‘not’ to put your new site into a sub, so I don’t.

I’m actually surprised my hosting company can’t help me.

Hey rohmellglover:

If you’re going directly to your blog that’s great. Just means you have cookies on. I was going directly to my blog to. I set my Login in WP to do that to save having to log in every time. So, I’m assuming you can get to your Dashboard? I can’t get to my site, or my dashboard at this point.