Total screw up with URI setting

  • Hi,

    In short, I’m an idiot.

    I was playing with my blog options today and (in anticipation of moving my blog URL from one site to another) I added my URL in the “blog URI” and “wordpress URI” fields. Now when I try to access my admin page, I get redirected to my old blog’s site! How do I undo this without being able to access my admin pages?

    Thanks in advance!

    Leif

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  • See Podz’s guide on how to reset this (using a tool such as phpMyAdmin):

    https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

    Thread Starter leifpettersen

    (@leifpettersen)

    Hi again,

    I appreciate the amount of faith you had in me to install and use phpMyAdmin all on my own after the above screw up, but I’ve failed again.

    I actually got phpMyAdmin installed on the server, but have been hung up on the username and password field while trying to start the software. I’ve toyed with the config file to the best of my abilities and nothing works.

    Is there some way for me to do this without a tool, like maybe edit one of wordpress’ php files in notepad to fix this?

    no you cannot just edit a wp file in notepad.. and typically phpmyadmin is installe already by your host. Are you self hosting this?

    If not, you dont have access to something like cpanel or plesk, via your host? I cant imagine any host not installing some sort of backend that allows access to your mysql database(s).

    Thread Starter leifpettersen

    (@leifpettersen)

    OK. Der. I found the phpmyadmin tool. I made the changes following Podz’s guide above. I’m almost there…

    Now when I try to access my wp-admin page, I get Google message saying “sorry, we couldn’t find http…”.

    I tried setting the ‘option_value’ field to ‘../wordpress’ and ‘../wordpress/wp-admin’ and I still get the error message. There are no trailing slashes or anything and there is no cache directory on my version of WordPress to delete.

    Suggestions?

    Thanks in advance!

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