Title: Working directory not working
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Working directory not working

 *  [joetheprogrammer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joetheprogrammer/)
 * (@joetheprogrammer)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-directory-not-working/)
 * OK, this is just when I least need it–a wordpress breakdown; or whatever you 
   want to call it. I’ve been running WordPress for a few months, and it has worked
   beautifully–until now.
 * I was trying to enable a plugin, and it gave out a php error:
    /usr/local/apache2/
   htdocs/joetheprogrammer/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/exhibit10.php
 * I know exactly why it gave this error, it’s because the working directories are
   messed up. Now when I try to view any page on my site, including wordpress admin
   page, it gives out similar errors when I try to view them.
 * My site is [http://dhost.info/joetheprogrammer/wordpress/](http://dhost.info/joetheprogrammer/wordpress/),
   you can visit it if you want to know what I mean.
 * It’s probably because the extension set the working directory, expecting that
   the server would be a self-hosted one. But how do I set it back to the way it
   was before, especially when I can’t access my admin page. It will probably involve
   going into the sql tables, but I’m fairly comfortable with that.

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-directory-not-working/#post-376902)
 * [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/phpmyadmin/)
 *  Thread Starter [joetheprogrammer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joetheprogrammer/)
 * (@joetheprogrammer)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-directory-not-working/#post-376908)
 * Thanks, but that link only seemed to cover changing login details. However, I
   got it to work by going under the wp_options table, and finding the cell that
   contained the active plugins, and messing around with it, and amazingly it worked.

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 * [working](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/working/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [joetheprogrammer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joetheprogrammer/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/working-directory-not-working/#post-376908)
 * Status: not resolved

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