changing URL!! Please help!

Moving WordPress ? WordPress Codex, Changing The Site URL ? WordPress Codex, Giving WordPress Its Own Directory ? WordPress Codex.

You can always change the url by accessing the database, check this video tutorial
https://educhalk.org/blog/the-difference-between-fixing-and-patching/

Also, this will help you
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL

Thanks for your help,

do I need to backup the whole database? The site won’t change location in the the server it’s just the URL name that will change…Do I have to go through all that process shown in the video?

Thanks

Backing up the database before attempting any changes, is always a good idea. Look also at the other video he mentions, on changing the url in the wp_options table
https://educhalk.org/blog/changed-wordpress-blog-address-in-settings-locked-out-how-to-fix/

You basically have to put the correct url (the final one, after the server changes it) in “site url” and “home”, as indicated in the video.

I am thinking that if you fix it through phpMyAdmin, directly in the database table, pointing to the final url, when you point the browser to that address, the blog will appear as usual.

Hope this helps.

A small example:

currently in your admin settings, you have

WordPress address (URL): test.url
Blog address (URL): test.url

(assuming that your blog is in the root directory)

if you are locked out from your blog, after the server gives you the new url, you access your database, and following the video, in wp_options table you change

siteurl: new.url (should be line 1 of wp_options)
home: new.url (look around line 39-40 of wp_options)

Thank you! you’ve been really helpful. Fortunately the website and log-in page were still working after the URL change, as it was re-directing it automatically to the new URL… so I was still able to log-in. I logged in as usual and changed the WordPress address (URL) and theBlog address (URL) to the new address to avoid confusion and it worked out.