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Thank you James 🙂

Hello,

In step 3-5 of the support documentation for moving directories on your existing sever:
https://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_Directories_On_Your_Existing_Server

It states to:

3. Go to the Administration > Settings > General panel.
4. In the box for WordPress Address (URL): change the address to the new location of your main WordPress core files.
5. In the box for Site Address (URL): change the address to the new location, which should match the WordPress (your public site) address.

When I go to the Administration > Settings > General panel I do not see anything that references WordPress Address (URL): or Site Address (URL): and therefor I cannot complete these first steps?

Am I doing something wrong?

Hi James,

Thank you for the support article! It sounds like that’s the one I should have used…(I used a different set of instructions I found on the support forum) and unfortunately now that I broke the site…I can’t use the correct one you linked. 🙁

It appears I need to fix what I broke before I can follow the correct directions?

In hindsight I should have also made a copy of the wp-config.php prior to changing it. In my defense my logic was that I was literally just removing five characters ‘/wp’ and if it didn’t work I could just add them back. Lesson learned the hard way…

So here’s were I’m at:

1. I’m 99% sure its a multi-site, not a single instal but how can I tell?

2. The only changes I made were to the wp-config.php file on line 78.

I changed the path from:
define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’,’/wp/’);
To:
define(‘PATH_CURRENT_SITE’,’/’);

I was then going to move the wordpress files out of a folder called WP to the root directory. Upon doing so it broke the site. I tried to put the files back into the WP directory and add the /wp back to the config file to no avail.

3. Now when I go to the original URL http://www.pismocoastsurfcamp.com/wp I am greeted with the following error:

Forbidden
You don’t have permission to access /wp/ on this server.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request

If I try to go to the admin panel at http://pismocoastsurfcamp.com/wp/wp-admin/ I’m greeted with this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/pismocoa/public_html/wp/wp-config.php on line 79

Looking at line 79 in the config file its the line below the one I tried to edit. I read that the error could be a hidden character like a space or something but I can’t find one.

So…..given all that info. Do you or does anyone have any idea of what I need to do to get the site back up so I can follow the correct article you posted? The first error message that speaks to not having proper permissions….is that something I should focus on?

I really need help and would be very grateful for some. Thanks. 🙂

Akismet is the security plugin. Can you recommend another as well?

I will try disabling the plugins now

Third time begging for help is a charm?