octaneguy

Thanks guys. Turns out my answer was found in the first link that spencerp posted. It had to do with the CHMOD permissions. Once I followed that, the install and reinstall went perfectly smooth.

Yeah this is started to drive me nuts. I rebuilt the DB by exporting SQL from another domain. I plugged in my own data in the DB and its still wanting to redirect to the original domain I generated the db from.

I don’t get it. There are 3 tables that have any data.

wp_options
wp_usermeta
wp_users

I’ve gone through every field and cannot find where the old data is coming from.

When I access the login page, the links at the bottom refer to
1.) An old subdirectory–previous to this WP install, I tried to make a different subdir name–changed WordPress to Blog.

Now the link back to the blog is using the URL from the domain I got the db tables from. Hmmm, where is it getting this from?

And the Lost password is trying to send me to the old subdirectory.