My blog is being redirected to the main website

For the future: never mess around (meaning don’t use!) the online file and theme editor – they don’t have an “undo” button. Especially, don’t use it if you don’t know what are you doing.
Next, you don’t save the “blog page” to your desktop. If you want to edit them, use a ftp client, download them, open in a plain text editor and edit.
Upload when done.
To fix it: upload a fresh copy of the theme’s files that you screwed up.

I normally do all my editing in with a text editor and upload to the FTP.

I only saved it to my desktop because I did a second install at https://www.musicbasix.com/blog2 to try and compare what went wrong, and the first thing I could think of was to save a local copy to see what copied and compare any differences, since I compared and compared between the two FTP folders /blog, and /blog2.

I uploaded the following folders, clean files: wp-admin, wp-content, wp-includes.

None of these fixed the problem. Any other ideas out there?

Under Options -> General, there are two URL values. They need to be “real”. Did you change ’em to not match your where your blog is?

If you can’t login to check, this tutorial may be helpful: https://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

HandySolo,

I am pretty sure I didn’t change the url’s, at least not on purpose, and especially not consciously to that weird ‘blog/?page…’

I couldn’t log in to my blog, so I followed the steps you gave me and voila! Thanks A MILLION for your input and the link you provided showing me how to access through the myPHPadmin. It worked like a charm and it was very simple to follow.

I love mistakes, you always learn so much from them!