I can't get to my dashboard to finsih setting up blog, keeps redirecting

  • Resolved ZillaoftheRsistance

    (@zillaofthersistance)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    Please help! I decideed to move my Blogger blog to my own host using wordpress. I had not done the redirects from my hosting service yet because I am not ready to go public with the new blog format while I tinker with it but I could not preview it as it would just go to the domain that I own which has a tired old webpage. So I did something in the general setting in the hopes that I could see how it was looking, and now I cannot get to my dashboard to edit anything on the blog or remove plug-ins or ANYTHING else AT ALL because it keeps redirecting to a broken page on my domain! PLEASE HELP!
    I was so excited to be able to move my blog but now I cannot even get at the dashboard to do anything it is like I wasted the last 12 hours of my life for nothing. I am sort of freaking out a little here, please tell me if there is something I can type in the spot in general settings that would fix it because that is the only part of my dasboard I have access to right now and I only got THAT by using my browser’s “back” button because if I click on ANYTHING in the dashboard, I just keep getting redirected to the screwed up non-functioning version of my blog.
    I am so frustrated I even typoed my own username to register just to be able to ask for help here, and then WordPress mocked me by asking why I registered when I am already logged in. Sigh.

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  • Change the urls backs. See Changing_The_Site_URL.

    Thread Starter ZillaoftheRsistance

    (@zillaofthersistance)

    Thank you for responding! I tried that last night and it still doesn’t work. I had not gone ‘live’ with the blog yet so my host, after helping me install worrdpress, tech support at my hosting company had me going to marezilla.com/index.php to get to my dashboard as the regular “marezilla.com” url goes to an old web page that my new blog will be replacing. Now when I click to do anything, I get re-directed here:
    https://marezilla.com/index/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Fmarezilla.com%2Fwp-admin%2Foptions-general.php&reauth=1
    After trying it again but telling it in the php file to go to:
    https://marezilla.com/index.php
    It now goes to that old webpage that I’ll be replacing with my blog (if I can ever get my dashboard back) but doing anything from the one tab I have that little useless piece of my dashboard in still goes tot he redirect insanity.
    The only access I have to my dashboard is from my “back” button and it is only the page with “general settings” that I can look at, clicking anything else goes to the redirect. I am afraid to close my browser because I may never get back in! But changing anything in “general settings” and saving does nothing but send me to a redirect page. I edited the php using filezilla as suggested, but there is no change.
    Is there a “for dummies” way to fix it?
    Would having my host remove wordpress altogether and then install a fresh download be helpful at this point?
    I have Hostway so there was no “five minute installation”, it was more like five hours and even the tech support people had a hard time.
    Should I be typing something else when I edit the php code? I am so confused.

    Would having my host remove wordpress altogether and then install a fresh download be helpful at this point?

    Given the “changes” that your host made, I think that’s your only real solution.

    Thread Starter ZillaoftheRsistance

    (@zillaofthersistance)

    Thank you so very much for getting back to me so quickly! I don’t know if the “changes” are from them, I think I am the ding-a-ling who screwed it all up, but I will call them and ask them to take it out and put up a new one so I can hopefully start over and NOT screw it up next time. ??
    Wish me luck!
    Thanks again!

    Thread Starter ZillaoftheRsistance

    (@zillaofthersistance)

    Thank you again for your help! After many hours and much tinkering on my part and that of the very nice tech support people at Hostway, I got it all fixed up and the blog is live exactly where I wanted it to be. ??

    Thank you so very much.

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