I did a stupid thing and now can’t log in…

  • I had a blog I was messing around with to learn how to use wordpress. I wanted to see what would happen if I changed the website address that it pointed to…so I changed it from https://www.executivedirectorgroup.com which is where it is really located to https://www.fosteringarts.org which is where I want to eventually use it…I wanted to see what would happen. Stupid! Now I can’t log in to my dashboard to change it back. Does anyone know how to get back in? Here is the message I’m getting when I click on my dashboard: “No input file specified.” and then if I go here: https://www.executivedirectorgroup.com/wp-login.php to try to log in, I get this log in screen

    fosteringArts.org

    Username

    Password

    Remember Me

    Register | Lost your password?

    ← Back to fosteringArts.org

    BUT my user name and password (which are correct) get me this error message again: “No input file specified.”

    How can I get back into my blog to change the address back to the actual address…I’ve been trying for hours, I’m exhausted.

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  • Thread Starter kmchale13

    (@kmchale13)

    Can anyone help??

    I have an idea, for what it’s worth.

    How do you manage your database? Do you have a tool called phpmyadmin provided by your hosting provider, ie, if you log in to your hosting provider you should find phpmyadmin somewhere. Or do you access your database directly?

    Either way, here is what I would do:

    1) Take a backup of your WordPress database;
    2) Access your WordPress database using phpmyadmin or another way;
    3) Figure out how to make a SQL Query. (In phpmyadmin you click the SQL tab)
    4) Enter this query:

    select * from wp_options;

    If you’re using phpmysqladmin you can omit the ; and click Go when ready

    5) The first item in the result should be siteurl. (Maybe not, your version is different from mine. But there should be an entry something like that.) This should contain the address you typed in the Web URL field in your WordPress options page. That is, it should say:

    https://www.fosteringarts.org

    If it does, then change it back by typing:

    update wp_options set option_value = ‘https://www.executivedirectorgroup.com’ where option_name = ‘siteurl’;

    Again if you’re using phpmyadmin you don’t need the ; at the end of the line.

    If you don’t see https://www.fosteringarts.org where I indicated, then your version difference is why. But I’m guessing you will still see it somewhere in that table and you should be able to modify these instructions to suit.

    BACK UP FIRST!!!!!!

    Hope that helps–if you have questions post them, but I am going offline for 3 hours. Will check back later to see how it went.

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