How do I republish my web site?

  • I think I may have screwed up big time. I’m hosting my web site through powweb. I installed wordpress and built my web site in wordpress. I was messing with my settings in wordpress and tried to change the url in the general settings. When I tried to change it I got an error message and then when I tried to change it back it wouldn’t let me. So now I can’t even log in to word press from the control panel in powweb.

    Am I going to have to reinstall wordpress to powweb? If I uninstall and reinstall wordpress am I going to lose everything I’ve done?

    Please help!

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  • Hi,
    Unfortunately, this is part of WordPress that does not forgive mistakes readily. I’ve borked this myself a couple times, and I’m highly experienced. You basically need to edit the database. I do this using PHPMyAdmin in my hosting account.

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Moving_WordPress

    This paragraph from that page, even though a slightly different topic, applies here:

    OPTION 2. If you forget to change the WordPress Address and Blog Address, you will be unable to change it using the wordpress interface. However, you can fix it if you have access to the database. Go to the database of your blog and find the wp_options table. This table stores all the options that you can set in the interface. The WordPress Address and Blog Address are stored as siteurl and home (the option_name field). All you have to do is change the option_value field to the correct URL for the records with option_name=’siteurl‘ or option_name=’home‘.

    If you can’t get at PHPMyAdmin or some other access to your database, you’ll have to get a geek to help. The good news is that it’s very unlikely that you’ve lost any data.

    Good luck, Dave

    Thread Starter cynddvs

    (@cynddvs)

    That worked! Thank you, thank you, thank you!!

    Super! I know how scary that can be when the whole site vanishes, AND you can’t even get in. Glad to be of help.

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