Changed URL – wrecked everything :(

when I was 16….sorry….not 26.

I’ve tried logging in through another blogs admin page but it’s saying I’m not a registered user.

Try changing it again, but removing the “www”.

Not sure how your domains are configured, but something weird is going on–if you go to https://vanessa-paris.com/ (minus the www), you get one blog. If you go to https://vanessa-paris.com/blog, you get redirected to a completely different blog at https://vanessaparisphotography.com/blog.

Do you have two WordPress installations running on the same box? Or some kind of domain forwarding set up?

Hi MathSmath and Thnaks for replying.

Once I mucked up the first blog I bought another domain (www.vanessaparisphotography.com) so that I could keep a blog running for clients (as well, I want to buy a website and would rather it https://www.vanessaparisphotography.com than vanessa-paris.com…..apparently without the hyphen it’s a bit of an adult site…)

I thought I had them as separate blogs through ipage but they sort of run into each other?

Somehow (my next problem) they’ve become intertwined…

So go back to database….and get rid of the www is my next step.

Sorry, just checked in the database and I haven’t used www.

Ah, okay. Try ADDING the www.

Which URL is supposed to go to which blog?

I was so excited and in such a rush to get this blog happening, I took no notice of instructions and I think everything comes under the one folder?

https://www.vanessa-paris.com should lead to a blog with a bigger header Vanessa with Paris written underneath (has a photo of a cat as the first post)

https://www.vanessaparisphotography.com/blog … should lead to another blog with a smaller heading and a heading about winter (a winters day?)

Ideally, I would move everything from vanessa-paris.com to the newer blog but that’s unrealistic for someone who thought ftp was a police code (well, until a week ago….I’m learning:)

Oh, hey–if you haven’t already, try this fix mentioned in the “Changing the site URL” codex article:

Add these two lines to your wp-config.php, where “example.com” is the NEW location of your site.

define('WP_HOME','https://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','https://example.com');

This is not necessarily the best fix, it’s just hardcoding the values into the site itself. You won’t be able to edit them on the General settings page anymore when using this method.

I’ve tried it a few times…

but I was wondering…..should I go back into database, change it back to /blog (the silly thing I originally did) and then inset these lines of text?

Should they say vanessa-paris.com/blog ?

or just the name it originally was before I changed it vanessa-paris.com ?

Thanks again:)

Sorry to keep firing posts out at you, but you know what I think might have happened? You may have changed the URL in the wrong database.

If you have two WP installs (which it looks like you do), there should be two DBs (unless you’re using WordPress MU, which is totally not a police code). Maybe you “fixed” the url in the wrong one?

When you go into your ipage control panel (or phpmyadmin…however they’re letting you manage the DB), do you see two databases listed, or just one?

I’m about to log off, but if you’re still struggling with this tomorrow morning, I’ll check back and see if I can come up with any more suggestions.

I see two and they say which one’s which so I’m pretty sure I’ve changed it on the right one (that’s about the only thing I am sure of:))

Thanks for your help – middle of the day here in Australia, so I’ll keep on trying:)

It looks like everything is working perfectly now. Were you able to resolve the issue?

Hi macmanx! Yes, it’s all sorted now thankfully:) It was a combination of things – we renamed the blog them folder and it miraculously worked? The site has neen renamed https://www.vanessa-paris.com/blog as I’m doing a bit of a website next week and will just use https://www.vanessa-paris.com (let’s see if I can mess that up too!)

Vx

Glad to see you got it working!