smittyrj

Ok Ipstenu:

Just spent the past couple hours trying some different things after watching a few video’s on youtube on using Filezilla.

I finally figured how to go into wp-config.php to edit as you suggested and tried pasted in:

update_option(‘siteurl’,’http://rjballoondude.com/’);
update_option(‘home’,’http://rjballoondude.com/’);

on line 2, which was blank. I saved everything at the prompt, but now, when I type in: http://www.rjballoondude.com

I’m getting this:
Fatal error: Call to undefined function phpupdate_option() in /home/myon7230/public_html/rjballoondude.com/wp-config.php on line 1

I went back in and deleted these two lines and am still getting:

Fatal error: Call to undefined function wp() in /home/myon7230/public_html/rjballoondude.com/wp-blog-header.php on line 14

I also found a VERY strange thing called:

PHP-Nuke_God_Bug_Fixed which I deleted.

Anyway, now my site won’t open at all, with or without this:

update_option(‘siteurl’,’http://rjballoondude.com/’);
update_option(‘home’,’http://rjballoondude.com/’);

All I can figure is I may have pasted it in the wrong location, and when I deleted it, the HTML now is not correct,

between: <?php and /** * The base configurations

I have NO idea how much space should be between them.

I did however make a copy of the edited html txt with the ‘updates’ in, so I can always paste it back.

No rohmellglover, I’m in Ontario, so I use Hostpapa out of Toronto. I used Host Gator before that however.

Ipstenu:….rename your .htaccess file to OLD.htaccess

I’ve done that. The Internal Server Error is gone now, but has been replaced with: 404 Page Not Found

Hey fonglh and thank you kindly for your email. I went to the link you posted but unfortunately it won’t work because I cannot get to my Dashboard of the site in question.

As soon as I type in http://www.rjballoondude.com/wp-admin, rather than being taken to WordPress to Login, I’m taken to the Error page…Internal Server Error.

However, when I installed this new site, I just did so as an addon and didn’t put it into a subdir. I never do that. I actually don’t know how to do that. On all the many training video’s I’ve watched, they always say ‘not’ to put your new site into a sub, so I don’t.

I’m actually surprised my hosting company can’t help me.

Hey rohmellglover:

I’m having the same issue as you. I did something STUPID on Wed night and tried changing the Default setting in my Dashboard for:

WordPress address (URL)
Site address (URL)

As soon as I tried to update I got the 500 Internal Server Error. I went right back to my General Settings and changed back to the Default, but am still getting the I.S.E. whenever I try getting to the Dashboard of my new site rjballoondude.com/wp-admin

I’ve contacted my hosting company; they couldn’t help. I’ve looked on Youtube for help on editing in Filezilla, but couldn’t find anything.

The only thing I found was this:

1. FTP to the site, and get a copy of the active theme’s functions.php file. You’re going to edit it
in a simple text editor (like notepad) and upload it back to the site.

2. Add these two lines to the file, immediately after the initial “<?php” line.

update_option(‘siteurl’,’http://example.com/blog&#8217;);
update_option(‘home’,’http://example.com/blog&#8217;);

Use your own URL instead of example.com, obviously.

But, I cannot find “<?php” anywhere.

The actual page for this info is here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL#Edit_functions.php

If you find a solution, please let me know, or if I find a solution, I’ll keep you posted. This is so aggravating.