From bad to worse to OH NO!

Now the database at GoDaddy is telling me that the credentials that I have entered are incorrect, but I know that they are correct

Did you check those details with your hosts?

I went through all of the steps of going into my database and changing the site URL and the Home fields under My-Options

Why did you do that? It has nothing to do with your database issues. Revert all of the changes you made.

Thanks for the reply.

I am using MAMP on a Mac to run WordPress locally, and now when I click on the phpMyAdmin tab the database does not launch. I did these steps to change the site url back to localhost:8888, so that I could access my website locally again.

Yes. I did check my details with my host, and it does match.

is there any way to repair a mysql database or recover all of the data that I have entered? I have no idea what I should do at this point.

I had some problem with this working with Godaddy hosting recently. There hosting panel is different than what most are used to. There were different passwords to get database access.

If you are building it locally then you still have a good copy of the database right? What about starting over with the moving process and a new database?

Thanks Webeminence. The reason I am so freaked out is because I can no longer access my local website or my local database.

As per the instructions in this WordPress article, I went into the WordPress General Settings and changed my site url to my domain name, https://www.louisianabeat.com.

When I made this change, I could no longer access my website locally. So, then I found this WordPress article. So I attempted to go into my local database and rename my site url, and now when I try to launch phpMyAdmin, my database does not launch.

I have really screwed up “BIG TIME!” I do have Apple Time Machine backups of my hard drive, so I can restore my website, but I do not know which folders to restore to get a previous version of my database.

Any assistance would be appreciated more than you can ever imagine. Thanks again.

As you have made changes both through your dashboard settings and phpMyAdmin because of which your site does not work, you need to reverse those changes. Only you know what you changed. None of us here know what was changed. So, try to remember what changes you made and try to correct them. That’s the only way you can restore your site (local or online) because you do not have any backups.

Again, it is a huge mistake that we do not create and store safely backups. Even when we do not make any changes, sites can have problems because of unexpected reasons. If we have backups, we can always restore our sites safely and immediately. So make it a habit to create backups, especially when making changes, upgrading software, moving sites, etc.

Any assistance would be appreciated more than you can ever imagine.

Yes. We would love to provide assistance. But for the above reasons, how do we know what went wrong, and if we do not know the problem, how do you expect us to suggest solutions?
What I suggest is, remember what you did and try to make amends. While doing so, if you find specific problems, ask here.
Better yet, if it is a new site and you do not have any contents to lose, why not start afresh?

Hi Krishna. Thank you for your observations and suggestions. Specifically, I went into the WordPress Settings > General, and changed my site URL from “localhost:8888” to “https://www.louisianabeat.com.” When I did this, I could no longer access my website locally. This is when I went into the mysql database and tried to revert this change by going into the my-options table, finding the site url field and the home field, and changing these back to “localhost:8888.” I now believe that I was supposed have set these field to “localhost” and not “localhost:8888”

Please understand that I cannot get back into my mysql database to undo what I have done there, nor can get back into my website to undo what I have done there either.

The good news is that I DO have backups of my entire hard drive. So now, I am asking for the location where WordPress stores website data on my hard drive. If I know this then I can restore that folder to a previous date before this incident happened. Any assistance will be appreciated. Thanks.

Your local WordPress installation will be covered in any of these, I think.
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Installing_WordPress#Local_Installation_Instructions

If so, open the folder for that program to look for the folder/ file where WordPress database is stored. If you have stored backups, it can be in the same location/ folder or whichever drive you chose for saving the file to.