Yahoo Hosting / WP Help

  • Resolved PHILSFAULT

    (@philsfault)


    17 years, 1 month ago

    Okay, so after trying to figure out how to replace my existing webpage with my new blog. I finally got frustrated and asked Yahoo Hosting for assistance.

    They changed my current website with my new blog successfully, but my URL still read “my domain name/blog1/ “. I really wanted to get rid of the /blog1/ and just have my domain name.

    So I went into my WP admin and took the /blog1 out of the “WordPress address ( URL ).” field, to see what would happen. I hit save.

    From that point everything is a bit fuzzy. What is happening now, is that not only can I not Log in ( Page Not Found ), but I lost my theme (iNove) and my blog doesn’t look the same.. I’d explain this better, but I can’t find the words.. I’m still in shock.

    So I sent a support ticket to Yahoo Hosting pleading for HELP… and there response was:

    “”We’re not sure exactly what’s causing the problems you’re seeing. While Yahoo! allows you access to setup the blogs, we did not design the software being used to run them and therefore aren’t the experts on
    them. Your blog appears to be created using WordPress, so your best bet would be to contact them for assistance.”””

    ASSISTANCE PLEASE…
    thanks in advance.

    phil ( philsfault ) ames

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  • kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    URL?

    Thread Starter PHILSFAULT

    (@philsfault)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    philsfault.com

    sorry, didn’t want to appear as if I was spamming the forum

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Consider using phpMyAdmin to make sure your wp_options table has the correct values in siteurl and home.

    siteurl is your WordPress address (URL) and home is your Blog Address (URL).

    http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

    Then once your blog is up and running at /blog1/ read this:

    To make WordPress available at http://mydomain.com just change in Settings->General, the Blog address (URL) to http://mydomain.com and put this index.php file in your web-root folder (it is the same folder that contains the blog1 folder)

    <?php
/* Short and sweet */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
require('./blog1/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

    Then update your permalinks in Settings->Permalinks.

    Thread Starter PHILSFAULT

    (@philsfault)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Totally confused here.
    I can’t log in to my WP account. I’m pretty sure I’m entering the correct log in info.

    this is frustrating

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Assuming you’ve tried Resetting Your Password with no success, here’s some things to try:
    1. logout or logout with http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-login.php?loggedout=true
    2. clear cookies and cache (or any cache)
    3. exit browser
    4. make sure local firewall is not causing problem
    5. login with http://www.yourdomain.com/wp-login.php
    6. disable all plugins–if necessary read How to deactivate all plugins when not able to access the administrative menus?
    7. temporarily rename .htaccess if possible

    If WordPress is installed in something other than the root folder please take that into account for the above url examples

    Please let us know what does solve your problem.

    Thread Starter PHILSFAULT

    (@philsfault)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    I’m sorry, but can’t this be any easier?

    both your links bring me to YourDomain.Com.

    I clear my cookies, cache, etc.. quite often ( twice today ).

    I just want to log in to my account. Isn’t there a “Lost your Account Info?” button, that will email me my details, just for verification.

    Perhaps I need the “Idiots Guide to Un-Screwing Up Your WP Blog”

    kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    What MichaelH said was, “Consider using phpMyAdmin to make sure your wp_options table has the correct values in siteurl and home.”

    That means go to your host, sign in to your account, go to your database, sign in and check the wp_options table. This is where you can correct the change you made to the address.

    Thread Starter PHILSFAULT

    (@philsfault)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Because I’m so utterly confused.

    Is there someone I can just pay $50 paypal, to go in and fix my issues for me? Perhaps be my “on call” tech guy. I’ll give full admin rights to my yahoo hosting account and once I’m able to log in to my WP account, full admin rights there as well.

    Of course I’m not just going to trust anyone.. so WP Admin could you recommend someone?

    besides myself and sick to my stomach

    phil

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Please consider posting a “New Job Request” [1] to have a professional work with you, or consider joining and soliciting professional assistance from the wp-pro mailing list [2].

    [1] http://jobs.wordpress.net/postajob.php
    [2] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-pro

    Thread Starter PHILSFAULT

    (@philsfault)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks…
    I’ll check the links for a Tech type guy / gal.

    Please leave this thread open, just in case I want to “panic” some more.

    Thread Starter PHILSFAULT

    (@philsfault)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Consider using phpMyAdmin to make sure your wp_options table has the correct values in siteurl and home.

    siteurl is your WordPress address (URL) and home is your Blog Address (URL).

    What MichaelH said was, “Consider using phpMyAdmin to make sure your wp_options table has the correct values in siteurl and home.”

    That means go to your host, sign in to your account, go to your database, sign in and check the wp_options table. This is where you can correct the change you made to the address.

    Okay guys, sorry for not being patient yesterday. I guess I was hoping for a “magic button” to fix everything.

    So this is where I’m at:

    this morning I added “phpmyadmin” to my Yahoo SQL Data base utilities.
    I’ve logged in to phpmyadmin
    went to “wp_options”
    edited my siteurl back to it’s original address. So now both my siteUrl and Homeurl are the same

    my blogs still not fixed and I still can’t “log in”

    what next?

    oh, and I created a /blog3 as a test and everything works fine. So at least that narrows down my problem a bit.

    kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Go to http://www.ourexcellentadventures.com/phil.html (make sure you key in the .html at the end.

    Is this basically what your site should look like? I took your old site code which was not working and then went to one of your categories which are working and copied everything above -content start- from the category page and pasted that into the page that was not working. Whew!

    What that basically shows is that your blog is ok but the main page is not finding the css or the header file. Somthing in your dashboard is still incorrect.

    You say you can’t log on? What error do you get?

    Thread Starter PHILSFAULT

    (@philsfault)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Yeeeeeeessssss!!!!!
    I’m back in business.

    So I followed your link that you provided for me and was pretty relieved to see that my blog still existed. Thought I’d try to log in, but got the “page not found” thingy.

    I remember what you said about the categories still working and I went to my “Daily Babble” category. Just for the hell of it, I hit “log in” and

    IT WORKED!!!!!

    whew..

    you are the best. thank you
    can I add some fundage to your paypal account?

    kmessinger

    (@kmessinger)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Glad it worked for you. No funds required. Happy to help. You can mark this resolved though.

    Thread Starter PHILSFAULT

    (@philsfault)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    Marking Resolved as we speak.

    If there’s anything I can do for you, just let me know.
    You Rock Harder than you can possibly imagine!
    and.. if you change your mind and need $20 in your paypal account, just hit me up.

    phil

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