My online website switches to localhost when going to wp-admin?!

Ok, I locally changed the url of the website and blog in the settings-page of the admin. Now I can’t access my local admin, it doesn’t recognize my password.

… great.

Fantastic, after even changing the pw manually in phpmyadmin (md5), I STILL can’t access, locally nor online.

Moreover: it makes this strange kind of url: https://www.domain.com/wp-login.php?redirect_to=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A8888%2Fdomain%2Fwp-admin%2F

How crazy is that? Does this mean I lost, hold on, EVERYTHING?

OK, luckily I’ve made a healthy back up before I uploaded everything.

I opened the SQL-file and find/replaced all the localhost-parts to https://www.domain.com.

Now everything seems to work. Don’t have a back-up? Bad news, unless you can still modify it in the online phpmyadmin.

I suppose I shouldn’t have put the localhost-address in the settings page (as website and blog-url) while the site was still local back then, although that makes sense in a way.

I did the same thing on my wp.com blog…now I can’t long in to the wp.org admin site. Can anyone help?

Never mind. Here’s the vid in case anyone else runs into the problem

https://educhalk.org/blog/?p=68

Thanks Innyvinny. That video also fixed a different but similar issue for me. I actually needed to change that value in the settings page from “localhost” to the actual url. That video also gave the information I needed in case I messed up typing in the correct url, which thankfully I did not do.

If anyone else is curious why I needed to do that, it’s because my wordpress site was not loading on any other computer other than the web server.