thanks kmessinger, made the change to the wp_config file and i am now able to access the site. Your help has been greatly appreciated.
i believe the host is webfaction.com. I was not the one who initially set up the name registration and hosting. The site was handed down to me for some reconfiguration. It was working fine but i believe i erred when i amended the setting to include “www.” into the site URL. Is there anyway to revert this in the wordpress config files?
.htaccess contents:
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
