Can't Login – Changed URL Addresses

  • Resolved kadelle

    (@kadelle)


    11 years, 10 months ago

    I did something stupid and can’t figure out how to change it back.

    I was in the general section of my wordpress dashboard and changed the two URL fields from my original website name to a new website name. When I saved, I lost access to wordpress and can’t not log in. It doesn’t recognize my login name anymore.

    My website is all jumbled now and the other pages direct me to a parked bluehost page.

    I desperately want to correct my mistake and change the URL fields back to the original website but I can’t even access my site or wordpress to do this.

    Any ideas?

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  • You could log into Bluehost’s cPanel, and *very carefully* use the phpMyAdmin database tool to find those two fields in the wp_options table of your database, and then change only those two fields back to their original values. Just don’t alter any other values, obviously.

    Just following up to see if you needed assistance. Any luck with the phpMyAdmin approach?

    Thread Starter kadelle

    (@kadelle)

    Yes the phpMyAdmin worked brilliantly. Thank you! The only tough part I had was figuring out if I had “blog’ after my real URL or not. *I didn’t. It’s now letting me log in just like before. I won’t make that mistake again. Silly to think it would be that easy to change my sites domain name.

    Thanks again! Happy day to you!

    You are quite welcome. When you have a moment, could you mark this topic as resolved?

    Thread Starter kadelle

    (@kadelle)

    Resolved! ??

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