Title: wp-admin serious problem
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# wp-admin serious problem

 *  [debruler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/debruler/)
 * (@debruler)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-serious-problem/)
 * Greetings. My blog is located at
    [http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com/index.php](http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com/index.php)
   I was doing some tweaking this evening, and something I did seems to have utterly
   and completely hosed both my site (all layout is now gone, replaced by pretty
   much straight text) and my ability to edit – my attempts to access [http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com/wp-admin](http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com/wp-admin)
   are met with a 404 not found. First, my particulars: – wordpress 1.2, installed
   via Fantastico with no problems – Firefox 1.0 – Win XP Now, an explanation of
   what I think happened. When I started my WP blog, I moved over from Blogger. 
   In doing so, my homepage became suffixed with /index.php for some reason (I don’t
   care why, that’s not my issue…). But, the header of my blog, when clicked, returned
   people to [http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com](http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com)(
   no index.php). I was attempting to fix this particular problem, and in doing 
   so I went to the Options menu in wp-admin. There are two lines there, one saying“
   WordPress URI” and one saying “Blog URI” or something like that. This is what
   I did: wordpress URI OLD VALUE [http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com](http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com)
   NEW VALUE [http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com/index.php](http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com/index.php)
   BLOG URI OLD VALUE [http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com](http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com)
   NEW VALUE [http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com/index.php](http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com/index.php)
   It seems to me that changing the BLOG URI value was a success, but changing the
   wordpress URI? Not so much. The question I have, then, is how can I get back 
   into [http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com/wp-admin](http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com/wp-admin)
   to fix this problem? Changing the wordpress URI seems to have hosed me completely,
   and I know it probably wasn’t so smart, but I was…well, you don’t want to hear
   my excuses. Is there anything I can do short of reinstalling, and if so, what
   would that be? Thanks for your time… Paul

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 *  Moderator [James Huff](https://wordpress.org/support/users/macmanx/)
 * (@macmanx)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-serious-problem/#post-112488)
 * Graphical instructions for what Beel said: [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/)
 *  [DianeV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianev/)
 * (@dianev)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-serious-problem/#post-112493)
 * Curious. I see this at [http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com/index.php:](http://www.niceguysfinishthird.com/index.php:)
   `
   <style type="text/css" media="screen"> @import url( http://www.niceguysfinishthird.
   com/wp-admin/wp-layout.css ); </style> I think that’s the CSS file for the admin
   area, not the blog pages. Try using the wp-admin.css (in the folder where the
   WP files are).
 *  [DianeV](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dianev/)
 * (@dianev)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-serious-problem/#post-112494)
 * Not sure why visiting the addresses with and without specifying index.php would
   be different, though. Should just take a little sorting out.
 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-serious-problem/#post-112495)
 * The initial problem started with the fact there is an index.html and an index.
   php file in the same directory. The server is set to serve up index.html first(
   assuming index.php is also set in the directoryindex option of the server) so
   if index.php is not specified, up goes index.html (Blogger page).
 *  [danielck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danielck/)
 * (@danielck)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-serious-problem/#post-112500)
 * have you check your root directory htaccess file?
    I too meet up with this problem
   and found that it is due to the default file problem.
 *  Thread Starter [debruler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/debruler/)
 * (@debruler)
 * [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-serious-problem/#post-112511)
 * Okay. You guys flat out effing rock. Thanks so much to all for the assistance–
   I’m back up and running now. Have a good holiday.

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-admin-serious-problem/#post-112511)
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